Katia Winter Quotes

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

I never thought I had a career. I think Meryl Streep has a career. I have jobs that I am lucky to get... I'm one of those actresses who never turns down a part, no matter how small. I don't have the luxury of picking and choosing. I take everything.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

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 reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

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 mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

Sure, I'd love to be on primetime, but if I'm blessed enough to be picked up by another soap, thank God! It's so hard out there. And when you're not working, you feel horrible. You don't know when you'll get the next job. You don't know how long the soap genre will be around. I want to help keep these shows on the air and keep everybody working!

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

If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

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

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

If you're an actor, if you're not writing as well, or you're not going to improv classes, there are long spurts where you're not physically in production - unless you're Channing Tatum at this moment right now - where you need to be doing something.

It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.

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.

I thought actors were born in Hollywood. I didn't know how to go about it.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something that they didn't want to do to pay the rent.

If this acting thing doesn't work out, maybe I could be a blogger.

Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.