Anjelica Huston Quotes

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

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

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

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.

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

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 don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

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

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

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'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.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

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

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

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

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.