Lionel Shriver Quotes

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

One wrong move, and you destroy your career.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

My big fear is that I'll put down so many people, I'll have to leave show biz.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever.

If you do a bad role in a film, you may not get television offers in future.

I realized that I need to protect my films because the director will move on, the producer will move on too, but as an actor I will be considered a flop if things will not work.

When I lost the job with Cricket Australia, I almost felt I had unfinished business to do. I felt that my reputation with South Africa and internationally had been very good. And then you lose your coaching job, it is tough. It kept me three years out of it.

Nobody is going to keep giving me chances even after two-three of my films don't do well.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

When I read the first 'Sharknado' movie, I thought it was terrible. I told my wife that I couldn't do this movie, that it would be the end of my career.

I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people.

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.

When I made 'A Few Small Repairs' and it did well, I followed that up with having a baby, and that was not received well at my record company. I was written off, and that had a bearing on my career.

It was never my fame - it was his fame. I was Clint's girl. I only stood to lose professionally.

I think Ric Flair has been tarnishing his legacy since 1990 - he has done more to tarnish his career then anything I could have said or did, then anybody could have said or did.