Rich Sommer Quotes

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It's just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.

You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.

I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.

During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.

I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.

You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.

Sure, I'd love to be on primetime, but if I'm blessed enough to be picked up by another soap, thank God! It's so hard out there. And when you're not working, you feel horrible. You don't know when you'll get the next job. You don't know how long the soap genre will be around. I want to help keep these shows on the air and keep everybody working!

All I wanted was to be a regional-theater actor, to be in a company. I thought it would be a great life. I don't think I understood how difficult it would be.

I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.