Barbara Sukowa Quotes

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Once you have been hot and cold, you get real appreciative when you got a place to go every day with decent material, a paycheck to come in, and nice people to work with.

I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.

Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.

For the working actor, there's nothing more stable than a network television show.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.