Paul Scheer Quotes

My work... is my legacy.

When you're caught up in your career, you're not thinking about becoming a legend one day or how, 25 years from now, you'll be immortalized in something or that you might be going into the Hall of Fame.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

I will let the work I've done speak for me.

I think I've had an illustrious career.

I have a very good reputation in the industry; my work speaks for me.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that's going to be the most valuable for my career.

I'm not a kid trying to make an impression in the business. I do have 600 films out there that are playing constantly.

Your work should do the talking and define who you are. That's the mantra I follow.

I don't have any single character that is my favorite because I would like to be known for the sum total of my work and not for an individual character that I might have played.

At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

If the public likes you, you're good.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.