Dexter Fletcher 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.

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

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

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.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

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've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast!

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

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.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

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.

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

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.