We have too many actors for the jobs available.
I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.
Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.
There's a perception in the industry that if the actor is not working or has taken a timeout, he or she has left the film circuit.
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
