Lynda Obst Quotes

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

I've always shied away from 'Where are they now?' shows, because I've been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.

It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

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

'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.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

I had been on four other series that never lasted more than a year and a half. I'd done fine, so you start to wonder, 'Will I ever be one of those lucky actors who get to be part of something lasting?'

As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.

There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

I've had some bad moments in my career and maybe I started to really understand the game a bit later than some.

My career was a roller-coaster ride but I never stopped taking chances.

It's hard work if you want a proper and a lasting career.