Joseph Benavidez Quotes

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

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

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

I always try and take something from each job.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

I am at A and going all the way to Z is high unlikely in any career, let alone football. You have to weave your way like the river, pick up your skills and keep going.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice keeper' - but your situation changes as your career goes on.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

I think the best thing you can hope for, as you continue on, is to learn so much from every job.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.