Wayne White Quotes

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.

I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro Almodóvar, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.

I'm very lucky that I have this other career that runs alongside my comic career, which is a film career, and I've been given this really lovely setup where they seem to make the movies very quickly as well.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible. I've done theater and I've done music, and I would love to keep that in my life.

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.