Intermittent Employment Quotes

When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.

Session work is not a steady thing at all. You do eight of them in one week and then go three months without any. That's the way it really is.

It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off.

I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.