Macaulay Culkin Quotes

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

I was an out-of-work actor for 10 years.

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.

I think there's so much that is out of our control as actors, and it's just really hard to market yourself in such a huge industry.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

I never could get a proper job.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

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.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

The thing about acting is everybody thinks you make a ton of money. And the money is good when you're working. But you can go a long time between jobs.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.

I came to New York in 1974, when I graduated from college. And you had to use 'Backstage' because all of the auditions were listed there. Most people didn't come with agents, so you got to see a lot of what was auditioning and when and where. 'Backstage' made sure you knew the major places.

I moved right to L.A., and I had a year of active unemployment. I had 50-something auditions for 50-something different projects, testing and doing callbacks, and could not get hired. And then, almost a year to the day of being out in L.A., I booked my first job, and then I started booking something every other month.