Sara Pascoe Quotes

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

There's just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

I refused to describe myself as an actress until 'EastEnders' because, until then, I couldn't support myself without doing other jobs.

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family.

It's really good to be a working actor.

I've managed to catch lightning in a bottle a couple times. I'm very lucky. But I want to do this forever. I enjoy it so much. One of the challenges as an actor is to stay relevant.