Andrew Garfield 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.

You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.

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

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.

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.

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

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

It always amazed me - it still does - that people offer me work. And when the theater was my basic bread and butter, every time a show finished, I was convinced I would never work again.

I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.

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 don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.