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> [If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/if-you-can-t-get-an-acting-job-then-go-backstage-or-take-tickets/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/ed-asner-14022_acting_if-you-can-t-get-an-acting-job-then-go-b_987284.jpg)

> [Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/never-stand-still-only-stand-still-enough-to-learn-and-once-you-stop/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ce/ed-asner-14022_acting_never-stand-still-only-stand-still-enoug_1680311.jpg)

## More by Ed Asner

> [All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/all-capitalists-should-be-like-warren-buffett-and-he-says-he-should/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/there-are-genuinely-sufficient-resources-in-the-world-to-ensure-that/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/the-older-i-ve-gotten-the-more-the-need-to-exert-comedy-no-matter-how/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [“And there you have your Founders and Framers in all their elite glory—the 1 percent of their time. Many spent more than they made.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/and-there-you-have-your-founders-and-framers-in-all-their-elite-glory/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/to-my-knowledge-there-is-no-blacklist-but-there-is-a-mindset-even/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/i-ve-never-stopped-loving-cartoons-i-loved-cartoons-as-a-kid-i-can/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/the-treasure-shouldn-t-do-the-hunting-and-you-re-a-treasure/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/always-keep-yourself-engaged-in-theater-in-whatever-job-you-can-get/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/if-you-can-t-get-an-acting-job-then-go-backstage-or-take-tickets/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [“Of all the Founders, Adams may have been the most churchgoing. But as a Unitarian, he did not believe in the Holy Trinity, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/of-all-the-founders-adams-may-have-been-the-most-churchgoing-but-as-a/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/i-went-into-acting-as-psychotherapy-and-it-s-still-a-work-in-progress/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/never-thought-acting-was-something-you-could-make-a-living-at-it-wasn/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [“Pissed off by the lies, misrepresentations, and outright horseshit, I decided it was time to strike back. It was time to reclaim the Constitution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/pissed-off-by-the-lies-misrepresentations-and-outright-horseshit-i/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/some-of-my-earliest-political-feelings-were-based-on-the-anti/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

> [“Roughly speaking: more than forty held government bonds. More than twenty were moneylenders. Over fifteen were slave owners. The rest an assortment of land…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-asner/roughly-speaking-more-than-forty-held-government-bonds-more-than/)

[Ed Asner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-asner/)

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