Getting fired Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

— Terry O'Quinn

I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being…

— Virginia Madsen

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

— Rosemarie DeWitt

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

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

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of…

— Billy Crudup

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

— Colin O'Donoghue

I think, you know, as an actor, unless you're exceedingly lucky and you're one of the golden few, a lot of your life you're…

— T R Knight

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

— Benjamin Bratt

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 the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's…

— Michael Vartan

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