Corey Hawkins Quotes

Honestly, I know it sounds corny, but as an actor, I'm just so happy to have a job.

You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.

Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

Hey, I'm happy someone is hiring me. It could be all over. I'm so lucky to have a job.

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

I feel that God has been amazingly kind to me. How many actors get to stay for 30 years and play the kind of roles that I have done?

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

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

I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.

I'm just happy to be working.

My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

There are so many talented young actors in the industry. I'm just happy to have a job!

It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.