Robert Picardo Quotes

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

Acting is a tough business to break into.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

I like the timeframe involved in being an 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 a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

I'm going to be an actor.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

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

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

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

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

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

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there's so much stress that often you don't even pay attention to the luxuries.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.