Randy Harrison Quotes

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.

The reality of a long-term career is that there are ups and downs.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

Sure, I'd love to be on primetime, but if I'm blessed enough to be picked up by another soap, thank God! It's so hard out there. And when you're not working, you feel horrible. You don't know when you'll get the next job. You don't know how long the soap genre will be around. I want to help keep these shows on the air and keep everybody working!

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

There's a really sweet spot with acting where you've finished a job, and you've got another one coming up in three or four months' time. That's my favourite period of unemployment.

Hopefully, comics will be enough to support me after I graduate.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

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.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

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

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.

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.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.