Armand Assante Quotes

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

In Bollywood, it's always feast or famine for an actress. That's the way of the game.

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

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.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

It's always possible as an actress that your last job could really be your last job.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.