Rainn Wilson Quotes

Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time when I didn't have a single bit of work. Months and months where I was auditioning all the time. I mean, all the time, and nothing was happening.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

Tough times were when I didn't have a job and nobody called me.

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

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

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.

I was living in my van, playing on the street for almost two years.

I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

I've been kept from honest employment for a long, long time now. Thank God!

I didn't come out and roll from job to job - my first year was really tough. I had to work as a teaching assistant for an agency; I ran a pancake stall in Dulwich Market. I taught drama classes and ran my own workshops. I applied for every advert on Gumtree there possibly was.

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra picked him up for a film, and my father acted just to earn money for survival.

It's a long struggle being an actor; I don't know if I'd ever recommend it to anybody!

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

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

When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.

I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

The tale of the actor struggling to make it is oft-told for a reason.

I may have gotten my first job from 'Backstage.' I remember going to the Equity offices, and I signed up for an audition. I left. I was grabbing a coffee somewhere and looking at 'Backstage' and saw that there was an audition for another project going on at the same time. It was called 'Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver.'