My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.
My career started slowly and then tapered off.
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
I've seen young actresses have major falls from their career, and that's just not what I want.
I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.
I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.
I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.
Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.
The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.
If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.
I understand that when a player reaches his mid-thirties, and has a few injuries, people start to question how long he can last.
I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.
I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I'm on my way out. Same goes for the way I get presented on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors and BET. I get lifetime achievement awards because of who I am and what I've done, but they want to put me in a place, as if I'm on my way out.
Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point - especially if you're a woman - when your career just falls off a cliff. I'm not being self-pitying. That's just the way it is.
When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'
Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.
I don't get played on radio anymore. Once you're over 40, forget it.
