Quotes About Longevity

Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

A lot of girls that work really hard and have had long careers, and stay grounded. I love Carolyn Murphy, she is gorgeous. All the VS Angels! They work super hard and have the sweetest personalities.

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.