Radhika Apte Quotes

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

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.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

Many in the precariat know they have to spend considerable time just waiting for opportunities to arise.

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

The precariat faces chronic uncertainty about what to do, about what incomes to expect, about state benefits that might be their due, about their relationships, their homes, and about the occupations they can realistically expect.

I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.

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

When your father loses his job you're not sure what the future is going to be. I was conscious that people were interested in what was happening to my father.

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.