Rachael Stirling Quotes

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.

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

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.

Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

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 never could get a proper job.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

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.'

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

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

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

The minute your membership looses a job that can be identified, economic theory goes out the window. You're dealing with frightened human beings.

I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

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 still dream about 'New York' mag. It's kind of weird. I dream I'm part-time, and they can't find a full-time job for me. It's usually that I can't find a lead, and I call all my great sources and say, 'Can you help me out?'

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

Since I was 15 I've lived in fear that I'd never work again.