Intermittent Work Quotes

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I want a job where I work for eight months, then do nothing for four.

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

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.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

I like working consistently. I like working for four months at a time, which is why cable was so attractive. You work for four months, and then you get to do something else, whether it's doing a movie or just being at home with your husband and eventually having a family.

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.

Whenever I don't have anything to do, I play Candy Crush or Scrabble. We actors have time between shots, which we need to kill. And we cannot call friends or family, as you are called at a moment's notice. So you need to do something which you can dispose of immediately when called for a shot.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something like that. It's very much like holiday work as far as, okay, I do it, and I'm there for two weeks and hopefully am working really hard, and then it's done, and I kind of go back to what I was doing before.

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.

Often, there is a job - say, for a voiceover or an appearance - and you think: 'Blimey!' From the outside it would seem like you are being paid a lot for a short amount of your time. It would be inappropriate to share how much they pay, but in the industry we call it 'doing a bank raid'. Unfortunately, those jobs do not happen every week.

I enjoy doing both comedy and drama, as long as I'm not doing something continuously.

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!