Acting Quote by Jack Klugman

There are certain sacrifices that you make, and you feel like the only compensation you have as an actor is financial.

— David Schwimmer

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't…

— Steve Guttenberg

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

— Travis Fimmel

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

— Tony Kushner

As an actor, I just made the most of the opportunities that came my way and I owe it to my directors for having…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I'd been warned that acting was an unstable profession and knew my parents couldn't support me financially. I had assured them I was going…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they…

— Jamey Sheridan

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so…

— Sherry Stringfield

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

— Donald Trump

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

— Elisabeth Rohm

As a TV actor, I was making money and spending it and always felt a certain void in terms of work.

— Vikrant Massey

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra…

— Javed Jaffrey