You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so…

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows…

— Aaron Douglas

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

— Spike Lee

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

— Terry O'Quinn

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

— Alyson Hannigan

With a club team you do get to work with them day in, day out, for weeks.

— Steve Clarke

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

— Francine Prose

I get to eat what I want on Sundays. You still can have a cheat day up to two weeks before the fight.

— Daniel Jacobs

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

— John Cariani

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred…

— Lance Reddick

There is a time in every actor's life when he has to face the self-created hurdle after he starts getting bored of work and…

— R. Madhavan

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

— Emily Mortimer

I'm a full-time dad; I'm a part-time actor.

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so…

— Mae Whitman