Acting Income Quotes

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.

I landed in Mumbai & I started doing acting. I would do acting for 5 days and I would teach Physics & Maths in the remaining two days which would cover my expenses.

Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

With acting, I didn't get much from it.

I did a lot of commercials starting in about '75, yeah. Well, not 'a lot'; I never was a big old commercial gal, but I made a good living. I didn't immediately make 'a living' at commercials; the first year I made maybe a living was about '80. I had a great year in '85. I had a nice little supplement.

The thing about acting is everybody thinks you make a ton of money. And the money is good when you're working. But you can go a long time between jobs.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't make money as an actor in the beginning. Your publicist might cost $5000 a month, so you're losing money.

But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

It's funny - sometimes people think we, as actors, have this wide range of choices of the roles we're doing, and in a lot of ways, when you're a younger actor, or just if you want to make a living in the business, you take your opportunities where they come.