Bill Clinton Quotes

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

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.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

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 think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

I fear for the lives of my daughters. I am uncertain about what kind of future they will face.

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

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

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 never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.