Nicole Ari Parker Quotes

As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

When you're lucky enough to pay your bills through acting, staying healthy and fit is part of the job.

As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'

My passion lies in amazing, complex characters and really well-written stuff - not to say I wouldn't want to do a comedy if the right comedy came along... I'm an actor in Los Angeles, and I have a family I have to support.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

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 kind of a crazy business.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.