Big Show Quotes

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

I want longevity in this career.

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

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.

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

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.

My career has been an inch at a time.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

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.

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

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.

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

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

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.