Actors Quote by Brent Spiner

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's…

— Julianna Margulies

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting…

— Hamish Linklater

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

— Steve Guttenberg

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of…

— Michael York

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period…

— Claudia Black

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many…

— Timothy Olyphant

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Every actor knows what unemployment is like, and knows what long periods of unemployment are like, unless you're spectacularly lucky.

— Mark Bonnar

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

— Terry O'Quinn

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor,…

— Terry O'Quinn

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job -…

— Gillian Jacobs