Julianne Moore Quotes

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

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

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!

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

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.

It's always possible as an actress that your last job could really be your last job.

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

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

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.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

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 only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.