Nolan Gould Quotes

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

It's always possible as an actress that your last job could really be your last job.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

You can be really hot one minute, the next minute be unemployed.

It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

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 first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.