Actors Quote by Claudia Black

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

— Mark Bonnar

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

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

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

— Benjamin Bratt

I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success…

— Ted Danson

I always say, as an actor you're only as good as your last job.

— Rebecca Root

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

— Rosemarie DeWitt

An actor doesn't have a regular job. He is dependent upon the roles which are given him.

— Van Heflin

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

— Jack Nicholson

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.

— Alden Ehrenreich

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

— Terry O'Quinn

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the…

— Martin Freeman