Jessica Walter Quotes

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

I love acting, but I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

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.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

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

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

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!

I didn't have a bad experience on 'Gossip Girl,' by any means, but it was during a time in my life where I was looking at acting in not a very serious way. Which is no insult to 'Gossip Girl,' but that was a time in my life when I really didn't know if I wanted to act when I got out of school. It was like, 'OK, I got this part. I'll go do this.'

I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

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

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

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

You do get used to the ups and downs, the rejection of auditions and not getting parts, and so when you do get a job, it feels really special, and you try to hold onto it for as long as you can.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.

I don't want to just be another actor in L.A. looking for a job.

There were points I wanted to stop acting. We got so busy and didn't get to see our friends a lot, and I was like, 'Wow, I'm kind of over this.' But then we started really having fun on 'The Suite Life.'