Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

I would love to work into my eighties. I don't want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy, and I'm living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.

I want longevity in this career.

I came to Liverpool wanting to stay here for the rest of my career. I certainly didn't want to leave after a year.

It's a short career, so I always try to focus, and I want to be in the elite for a long time.

Everyone used to tell me, 'Just so you know, Divas only last five years around here.' I said, 'What? I want to be here forever!'

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I want to have a career that lasts 60 years, not six.

Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media.

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.