Robert Redford Quotes

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

Once a waitress, always a waitress.

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

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.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

I stayed in the East for about a year after I graduated. Then, I came out to Los Angeles and started knocking on doors and working my way up. This was the '70s. I had been told how tough it was for a woman trying to make it in Hollywood, but I sort of had blinders on. I just did things anyway.

Nobody was like, 'Kimberly, we're going to let you anchor general news or host a show or do any of that.' I at first started out doing legal analysis, but I had to make the case to my bosses... give me a shot, give me a chance, and I was able to do that: say, 'Let me fill in. Let me show you my range. Nothing to lose here - it's the holidays.'

It started with Dragon Gate USA, where I started as a guy on the pre-show and wasn't promised anything. I kept coming and doing what I do and ended up on the main show and eventually won their championship.

Modeling will slow down no matter who you are.

I think everyone's got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are.

There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.

I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma...I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.