Allison Tolman Quotes

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

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.

When you are a freelancer, you are always looking for a next job. There is always struggle.

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

I was on 'Gilmore Girls' for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

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.

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

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.

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

I've tried open-ended jobs and found myself incredibly unhappy. I don't like the monomania of showing up every day and doing the same thing. I don't know where my next cheque is coming from, I don't know where my next job is coming from, I have really sketchy health insurance, but I need variety in my life.

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.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

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

American capitalism today offers us no assurances that our efforts will be rewarded by security, stability or enough income to let us live well or at least well enough… Contemporary capitalism turns all workers—laborers and managers alike—into economic junk. The days if a long career with one employer, once a key part of the American dream, are long gone for most workers.

Post-'Daily Show' has been so busy, which I've been surprised about. We're basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you're worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.

As an artist, I'm very used to waking up and sort of not knowing what my day's going to be and not knowing where my next paycheck is going to come from.

I remember talking to an architect and he said 'I am making so much money I don't know what to do' - I am in a business where you don't have an idea from one end of the year to the next how what you are going to earn and it is not like a salary that you can guarantee.

As a dancer, you go from one show to the next, and you never know where your next pound is coming from, and I think that's what makes me say yes to so many things, because there's always a fear that you won't have a job.

Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

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

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.