Rick Hoffman Quotes

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along.

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

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

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

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.

Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

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

Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

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.

What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.

I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.

There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation.

There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lurking, because when 'The Office' started, I wasn't a regular. You're a guest star, so they don't really need you. They didn't say that, but I've seen the show - with or without me, it's still funny.

My career after 'Life Unexpected' took a really big dip, and I realized you have no control as an actor over the process of going to work.

I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

I like to go for auditions. I enjoy that aspect of this job until I actually need a job, and then that becomes a problem. The worst thing is to build yourself up for a role and not get it, so now I'm just taking every day as it comes and trying not to rely on anything.