Unemployed Actors Quotes

I know a lot of really good actors - tons, just tons - who I still don't know why they don't work all the time because they're that good. It's just a weird business, and I know a lot of actors who shouldn't be working, but they work all the time.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

The trouble with audition process is, when you're an unemployed actor, it's the only time you get to act, and it can be quite fun. If you feel in control of the material and you feel that the people are pleased to see you and are excited by you auditioning for them, it can be a really rewarding process. But it can also be a very humiliating process.