Quotes About Longevity

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

We'd like to believe that Americans live longer than most other people in the world. Sadly, that is not the case.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

The one moment above all that fans bring up from my career when they run into me is the Savage match. Here it is, 30 years later, and everywhere I go that's what people want to talk about.

I like to wear things for longer than one season.

I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.

These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining.

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.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.

When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years.

I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.

Outside of white button-down oord cloth shirts, Trickers brogues, 501s, and Ray-Ban Aviators, the single item of clothing that I have had in my closet consistently since 1982 is a pair of black-and-white checked Vans. They are the lazy man's shoe - perfect for dog walking and security lines at the airport.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

I've been with the paper for almost 30 years.

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

I'm happy in Paris, and I hope to be for many years.