Kent McCord Quotes

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

It's a difficult thing to overcome, but I've been quite fortunate. I haven't been out of work, literally, since 'M*A*S*H' went out of production.

What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

I want to have a long career.

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.

I think I'm just really lucky to have my Internet career last more than a few months.

I'm really lucky to be in the TV industry and to have a regular yearly contract. That gives me security.

I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, 'I really want to play this guy!'