Jessica Alba Quotes

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

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.

This whole thing is - our window to be able to fight and make money is very short. It's a short window to be able to take advantage of this and make as much money as we can and save it for the future. When you're not fighting, and the money's not coming in, you can't do that, and that's the part that sucks about this job.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it's an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody to go into this business.

Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.