Unstable Work Quotes

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

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

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 don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

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.

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. They're always putting the political in front of the economic.

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

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

Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.