Amy Ryan Quotes

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

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.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.

And since I have become an actor, not one person has asked me what degree I got.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

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

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

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.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

I've been lucky. I've never really had a job that I did that I didn't like.

I've been pretty lucky; I like my jobs.