Sarah Goldberg Quotes

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

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.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

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.'

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

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

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

It's really good to be a working actor.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.

I want to open an eye or two about what being an actor is really like because it's not all red carpets and photo shoots. It's like trying to get that job and going from job to job.

I started when I was 21, and it was always about getting the next job - like most actors, that's all it's ever been for me.

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.

Before my big break in 'MADtv,' I was doing a lot of commercial work.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.