Unstable Career Quotes

I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

When you're a young actor, you're expected to live a transient life.

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

It's always possible as an actress that your last job could really be your last job.

I could not keep my success. I had such a great run. By 93-94, it all came to an end and I had to go to Bangladesh and work there.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

A doctor can be a doctor today and they will be a doctor tomorrow. But an actor, well you're not working at anything right now, whereas the doctor is going to have their job tomorrow, for the most part. So there's the insecurity of that, and you have to go where the work is.

I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.