Top 202 Longevity Quotes

I’m most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don’t have that, you really don’t have very much.

I’m trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a ‘superstar’ gets me good roles, then that’s a positive thing. But my goal isn’t just to be a superstar. It’s to act for a long time.

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

A lot of people go into the bar and nightclub business thinking: ‘Hey, we can make money for a year or two, close and then open again,’ but for me, it’s always been a business and it’s always been about longevity.

My own recipe for longevity includes considerable amounts of fruits and vegetables. An additional major responsibility for the maintenance of our bodies is regular exercise; at least 4 to 5 times a week.

Image is the most important thing about someone’s career and longevity.

I’m just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

Longevity is a big deal.

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.

I’m picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that’s to be careful about what kind of work you do.

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

It’s surreal to think that no one has played as many Test matches for England. I suppose it’s a credit to my longevity.

Look at The Beatles: how they struggled, how they worked in order to become such a good little band. And that’s why they had such longevity and are still admired today.

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it’s something like 35 years or younger. In other words… success is no indication of longevity.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

If I’m not hungry and I’m busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It’s informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly that this is one of the strongest areas of longevity research.

I suppose I’ve been very fortunate in terms of my longevity and my voice and the way it has held up over the years. I hope to be able to keep on doing what I’m doing until I can’t do it anymore.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It’s hard to get the first job, but it’s so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.

It pleases me that Frank Sinatra’s music still has an audience, because many people who have come into the music world and then passed out of the music world are long since forgotten. He has been able to enjoy this great longevity.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I’m tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

I’m a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

I know where I wanna end up. I’m ready to go, and I’m ready to learn. I’m ready to build, and I’m ready to establish my longevity.

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the ‘child actors argument’.

You have to prove that you know what you’re doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you’re around every second.

I want that longevity in the career, so if you don’t know how to get it, you trying to chase that high, you trying to continue to chase your dreams and conquer things you never thought you could get. And you just want to get there too soon, so you taking the wrong moves to try and compensate what’s not happening.

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.

I want to be like a Christy Turlington, still doing my craft and still killing it. I want longevity and to be able to do this for a really long time.

I hope to have longevity in this rap game. Longevity with my money. Just longevity.

For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

I always wondered what the longevity of the name Lil Xan would be. I always contemplated whether I’d have to change it, but I learned you don’t have to if the formula is working.

There are some designers who flash and burn – Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don’t think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

I’ve been able to have some longevity here with the Chargers. It is unique.

A healthy heart is the key to longevity.

I wasn’t thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don’t think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

The comic is today’s western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it’s important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they’re on.

‘Supercentenarian’ is the term used by longevity experts to signify a near numerical impossibility: those who’ve outpaced 99.9999 percent of the population and landed in the 110+ Club.

The truth is, people who have longevity are able to be aware of their public perception and take it and use it and make it work for them.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that’s fine. I also believe that if doors don’t open, make new doors, so I’ve also started producing quite a bit of things.

I am always really respectful of anything that has the kind of longevity and fan base that something like DC Comics has and ‘The Flash’ series in particular has.

I think I’ve achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history – my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

Longevity has a lot to do with me continuously nonstop putting music on the shelf, and making myself be the face of the Bay, and continuing to carry the Bay on my back for many moons, you know.

With longevity comes, ‘Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.’ Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.

I want to have longevity with the UFC. It’s a dream come true to be with the UFC, so I just want to have longevity with them.

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.

We’re focused on proposing solutions to problems along the way to realizing a society where people can enjoy good health and longevity.

Longevity trumps everything.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that’s what’s truly difficult.

I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.

To some degree, Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity.

I’m shooting for longevity. The road is hard on your body.

Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It’s not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it’s the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise.

I feel like if I can help somebody look at money differently or manage their finances differently or spend a little differently, then I feel like I’m doing my job. So I’ll try to help them see the bigger picture and think longevity versus the temporary spending that we’re kind of accustomed to.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi’s have longevity. They will never be just a fad.

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I’m sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it’s given them longevity.

One thing that I do want to say is Drake, as an artist, anybody has to respect him. He’s in the game, and he’s been in the game – he has longevity, even if he doesn’t write or writes his music.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I’ve always hoped to have a really long career. So I’ve tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn’t realize the two could go together.

I exceeded my expectations of longevity in the NBA.

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

What I’m doing with my body and with my golf game, I’m trying to extend the longevity of my career.

We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that’s what gives your songs longevity.

The people on programmes like ‘Made in Chelsea’ just want to be celebrities. It’s so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I’m striving for longevity in my career.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it’s to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you’re making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It’s just like being married, except you’re married to more than one person!

The most important thing for me to teach my children is about health and fitness. It’s about taking care of your body and eating foods that are good for you and getting the right exercise that you need… It’s just about living a healthy life for longevity and a healthy heart.

Principle says it’s not who put forth an idea. It’s not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it’s not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That’s not what it is at all. In a power system, that’s the way it works. But in a principle system, it’s what it says.

I don’t deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

When I started out, nutrition wasn’t a huge thing in my arsenal. Getting older, I’m getting a little smarter, thinking about longevity.

All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apace. Human longevity is increasing; corporate longevity is decreasing.

I have never, ever been embarrassed by saying, ‘I don’t know.’ I think maybe that’s part of that longevity of my career. Sometimes I have to say, ‘I don’t know but I’ll find out. Call me next week.’

To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we’ve committed ourselves. And that system is embodied – through marketing as much as talent – by Steve Jobs.

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what’s already been there – like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven’t been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity.

Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in ‘The Longevity Project’ focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.

People have compared me to Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Eminem, and J. Cole. They bring substance and largely are all good storytellers, and those are two of my biggest strengths. It’s dope to be compared to people who have longevity in the game because that’s the most important thing for me: I want my name to live forever.

It’s very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that’s hard.

It takes longevity to earn respect.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

I don’t need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

It’s all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It’s all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I’d be a massive movie star. But there’s a longevity to what I do. It’s more reliable. Someone isn’t deciding that I’m the next big thing.

I’m not going to give up doing interesting things. I’m going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

I think it’s really important to remember that it’s a long life, and it’s a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

It’s funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A lot of those alternative comedians have ended up being mainstream, they know that longevity is about being mainstream.

Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what artist is the one person they are an expert on? You see, if you want any kind of longevity, if you want any kind of legacy, you need to know what ancestral line you are from.

One day, I just hit a point where I was like, ‘What am I going to do with my life, with my career?’ I have all of these little things going on, but what am I going to really do? And for me, I saw longevity in acting.

There’s no longevity on YouTube. You have to keep pushing boundaries.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It’s a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there’s a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

I’ve surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

If you’re looking for longevity, you have to be a hard worker.

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

The good thing about radio is that it’s the kind of career that really is a career with longevity. It’s something you can do as long as you want to do.

To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.

I want to do everything. I just want variety and longevity. I’ve never filmed a movie before, I want to do that. I want to come back to theater at some point. But I was in New York for like ten years, grinding. I’m ready to be in L.A. for a little while, and really experience film and television.

When our kids are asked by their friends about the success of the longevity of our marriage, they simply joke that Tamar and I have spent so little time together that ‘it’s really too early to tell’ if our marriage will, in fact, succeed.

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I’m gonna prove that I can stay in the game and have some longevity.

Nas’ longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.

Maintaining longevity is a major part of success to me. So many people come into an industry quick, shoot to the top, then crash and burn.

I was religious with the way I stretched, the way I would do my soft-tissue work, whether it be massages or foam rollers. I was very good about getting in the hot tub and cold tub, and getting in the training room. I also love to do yoga, and I give yoga a lot of credit for my longevity in the NFL.

I feel like the biggest key to longevity is maintaining what’s special about yourself but always presenting it in a new way. That way, people can never get tired of you.

I don’t work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Lord willing, I’ll have longevity and have a lot of success.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

In wrestling, you’ve got to be an athlete. You can’t just be a body builder; you can’t just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.

If I could wish to steal anyone’s attributes whose would it be? Good question. Maybe not a specific attribute, but if I could replicate the longevity of Buffon’s career I’d be a happy man.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

My run cannot be touched. If you want to talk about longevity, you can speak the name Hogan. If you want to talk about white-hot, selling tickets, and taking the business to a height it’s never been – and, with a hell of a supporting cast, I might add – you’re talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I don’t compare shows. It’s very simple. I don’t live in the past. If there’s any secret to my longevity, it’s living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

There’s no longevity in managing – and not much sense, either.

If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I’m surprised that I’ve been able to dance as long as I have.

There is so much I admire about Buffon. His longevity is remarkable, his loyalty to Juventus impeccable.

The key to WWE’s success and longevity is that they are, as modern and as relevant as the company may be in modern social media and platforms and contemporary distribution, the company is still built around old-school promotion. Who are these two fighters? Why are they wrestling? And why should I pay to see it?

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you’re doing something that has longevity.

Biopharmaceutical research and development efforts have achieved dramatic improvements in global health and longevity, and we are committed to continuing our quest.

I come to Comic-Con in San Diego because this is where those fans are – those to whom I owe the longevity of my career.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

There will always be rock stars, but I don’t know how much depth and longevity they’ll have.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

Women who are clever actresses have longevity because they’re amazing actors, not because the camera loves them.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I’m trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

The key to longevity is to interact with other people.

Just as every Jewish couple gets married under a canopy open on all four sides – a replica of the tent modeled for us by Abraham and Sarah – so must Jewish communities keep our tents open. This is the true source of our longevity and resilience.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it’s not a Grammy, it’s longevity.

Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I’m going to do.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

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?

When I’ve lost weight, some fans get very upset because they want me to stay curvy. But my own self-worth and wellness regime has to do with my well-being and longevity, so if I make the choice to take care of myself, and the outcome is losing weight, it’s disappointing that there might be some backlash.

If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you’ll use it more.

There’s an art to being a good actor, there’s an art to being a celebrity, and there’s an art to longevity.

For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.

There’s no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

I don’t want to be the biggest superstar. I want to be good at my job, and I want my work to go down in posterity. I am working for the longevity of my career.

When I look at the great athletes, I think of the Kobes and the LeBrons and the Tom Bradys of the world, obviously they take rests and recover, but they also continue to work, too. Working out and keeping up with that, with your conditioning, is another part of health and keeping your longevity throughout the years.

From the moment I turned 39, 40, I really turned a corner and became a person who really enjoys working out. When I don’t get a chance to, I miss it. I also just recognized that it would give me career longevity if I kept myself in the best shape I could possibly be in.

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it’s the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though… a senior citizen… my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I’m amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I’ve been born and new music that they create, so it’s amazing to still be on the radar.

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

It’s bigger than the music. You have to have a personality, you have to have a character you have to have a good rapport with people. Those are things that also give you longevity.

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

When you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.

Some people don’t believe in cold. I’ve gotten so used to it that I love it… and doing those things to get my muscles to bounce back and recover have been very beneficial for the longevity of my career.

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

The centerpiece of ‘Law and Order’ is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There’s a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

The truth is I’m not at all surprised of the longevity of my career. In fact, I would be surprised if the opposite were true and if my career did not have this longevity because I can’t believe people would purposely deprive themselves of such hilarious, meaningful entertainment at these prices.

I have always been a puncher, but I tried to use my other tools and take my time, because in boxing, you need longevity. I can have a dust-up and knock anyone out in the first round, but you need more than that.

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That’s why I’ve had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It’s super enjoyable!

I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you’re in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

I hit the beauty jackpot, I get it, but that’s not enough: you’ve got to have more to have longevity in this business. It’s always been, ‘OK, so what can I do now?’

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it’s really about the longevity in the music industry. It’s not all about having a lot of hit records at one time.

I take my health and the longevity of my career very seriously.

There is a reason that both have had the longevity in their careers that they have had. They have each done very different things throughout their careers and lived really interesting lives. There is a reason why they are up there still. After all, there is only one Barbra Streisand and one Liza Minnelli.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

We are lucky to have had the longevity we’ve had, garnering new people. I’ve even become cool to my daughters’ friends.

I think a lot of wrestling revolves around the bodybuilding-type perspective on nutrition, whereas I have a different approach; I’m way more focused on longevity and making sure I get those micronutrients in and eating a bunch of organic good as often as I can.

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren’t what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

I feel like, with how medicine is evolving, something will be out there soon that can help you heal from arthritis. That might be what helps my longevity and pushes me to keep performing.

I am more interested in health, quality of life, longevity and how training and nutrition affects that as you get older.

Words have a longevity that I do not have.

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

I feel a very important factor to our longevity is that, over the years, we have managed to create our own unique identity and aesthetics.

I don’t want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.

Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL.

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you’re an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

Hopefully, ‘Inside Out’ will have the longevity that those older movies have, and many years down the line, people will be able to watch it and find some kinship with it.

I think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn’t come only with good looks: talent matters.

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

I think I would’ve been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it’s all about longevity.

I’m not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn’t dependent on my great, great good looks.

If you can prove that you’re in that elite class on a consistent basis, it speaks volumes about a player’s longevity. It also says that as a player, you were steady, stable, and great and that you deserve to be recognized.

I used to hang out in my dad’s workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.