Peter Milligan Quotes

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Working is living to me.

I like the work that I get to do.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

Times change; people change.

The world changes. You’ve got to adapt.

As the world changes, the way we work changes with it.

There are times where fans don't understand that change is inevitable or that changes are done too fast. They say, 'We like the way you used to be.' Or they say, 'We liked what you did then.' You can't stay the same. As you mature as an adult, you find out you have to keep changing in this business. It's something The Undertaker laid on me.

In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.