Pernell Roberts Quotes

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

I've tried open-ended jobs and found myself incredibly unhappy. I don't like the monomania of showing up every day and doing the same thing. I don't know where my next cheque is coming from, I don't know where my next job is coming from, I have really sketchy health insurance, but I need variety in my life.

I've been a freelancer my entire career, and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things, whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.

If this acting thing doesn't work out, maybe I could be a blogger.

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

Freelancers generally want as friction-free an engagement as possible.

In 2012, when I left MTV, irregular income started.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.