The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
I decide to go direct to Key West... I know the place quite well, and it's near the points in Florida that I wish to visit. I have an idea at present of doing some work but do not know how long that will last.
I have a freelancer's mentality: if I leave the country for more than 24 hours on a non-work trip, I believe I will never be employed again.
Well, I don't have much job security.
I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.
There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.
The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.
I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.
You never can take for granted that you have a job.
I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.
The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
