Stacy Keach Quotes

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

I don't think I have reached that stage where I can evaluate my career. I still have a long way to go. All I wish for now is to make sensible moves and to choose wisely. It doesn't matter if there are gaps between films, as long as the ones I do give me the satisfaction of having done something good.

Fifty career picks is a huge deal for me.

I'm sure I'm going to have a long and successful career.

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

I don't want to regret anything in my career.

For the moment, I haven't ended my career. I'm young. There are still a lot of goals.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.