For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Most adults get to a point in their careers where they feel secure, where they have a body of work behind them that will ensure longevity, and for actors, it's just not like that. You're basically always a temp, going from job to job.
The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.
The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.
Fashion can be a very fickle lady, especially when it comes to models - fashion likes to turn on its own.
When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.
The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They weren't wanting to necessarily support an acting career; it's a really fickle business, and it can be difficult and unstable. They were rooting for education and the whole nine yards.
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.
I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very scary.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.
