All of us make mistakes and the majority of us have missed a day's work for whatever reason.
That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.
I can't pay my [bills]. I can't go to work. My car is out of gas.
There was a time when I had no work, and I had to sit at home for 4 years.
The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.
The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
I had some personal issues to sort out so I couldn't work for a while.
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
I'm not going to take off time and lose money to go fight.
I find that my touchstones go out the window, the routines, the things that you do to keep you grounded. Then when I'm out of work I have too much time. The trick is not to get lost surfing the Internet.
