Actors Quote by Quentin Crisp

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

— Rachel McAdams

What's that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and I loved…

— Genevieve O'Reilly

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

— Terry O'Quinn

I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because…

— Candace Kita

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

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody…

— Gillian Alexy

Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly.…

— Nick Offerman

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

— Alan Brien

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

The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners,…

— Kate Simon

I worked at Starbucks, I was a waiter, a bartender and a valet, sometimes working 2 to 3 jobs at a time while getting…

— Andrea Hall

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not…

— Henry Rollins