About Quote by Daniela Ruah

Playing a TV character for seven years is almost like when you do a play. You live, breathe, and everything else with that character…

— Richard Schiff

As an actress, I had a very short career - it lasted 12 years.

— Mumtaz

My initial years on TV have been fulfilling with the kind of shows that I have done and the characters I have played.

— Mohit Raina

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

— Allison Scagliotti

The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is…

— Scott Bakula

In TV, when a character works, you end up doing it for years.

— Sunil Grover

I started acting in 'The Sopranos' around 1999 and 2000. I did that for six years. That was quite a job, and I loved it.

— Peter Bogdanovich

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to…

— Alia Shawkat

When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.

— James Purefoy

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

— Adam Vinatieri

The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span…

— Nell Scovell

One year, I did 10 or 11 pilots of TV shows that never went anywhere.

— Aisling Bea