Stuart Pearce Quotes

I think I enjoy my job more now than I did when I started. When I started in 1996 on a national level, I was 27 and part of me was scared to death.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

I have seen ups and downs. I am 10 films old. People say I have changed. But, I don't sense any change in myself. If I had to change, I would have changed in my second or third film.

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

I think doing research is probably the most valuable thing you can do for any career you're interested in pursuing, and not just a career on YouTube or in media. Really take a look at people whose careers you admire and learning from their successes, but also their mistakes.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

I have a million career weaknesses, and although it's uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

Working is the best way to understand and grow, as an actor, in my opinion. That's been my experience.

I'm just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I'm just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. I look at acting, at how I look at being involved in a job and living my life and prioritising.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.