Career Span Quotes

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.

I can play until I'm 40. But I won't.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

At the end of the day, I don't think I am going to be judged by what happened in the 90's and 2000's, at the end of the day my career will be judged from beginning to end and everything in between.

I wasn't about one season, but career and longevity.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

If you look at my career and you look at the span of my work and the things I have done, as far as to garner fame, you'll see that I have turned down more interviews than I do. Or I turn down more things than I do.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

I don't want to play till I'm 40.

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

Obviously, the basketball career doesn't last forever.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.

You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

I played 18 seasons. That's a lot. There is some that played more. Brett Favre I think played a couple more. There is a few. There is a few guys that played more, but not many.

I came into films when there was action. When I retired, it was romantic period.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

If in sports you have a life cycle for 10 or 15 years, in fashion, you have no cycle; you're in it forever as long as you stay healthy. And I want to be in it forever.

I hope to be acting until I am 90.