Amy Landecker Quotes

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

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.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

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

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

I didn't have a huge amount of security when I was a scientist from one contract to another. You're always thinking, 'Am I going to have a job this time next year?'

I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.

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

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something like that. It's very much like holiday work as far as, okay, I do it, and I'm there for two weeks and hopefully am working really hard, and then it's done, and I kind of go back to what I was doing before.

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

I always say, I have been fired from more jobs than most people would ever have had in their entire career.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.

I've had two jobs my whole life. I worked at FedEx for, like, two days, and I worked at Popeye's for a week. I just needed a check. It was a standard thing for people where I'm from. Well, people from there that did what I did for a living, you know what I'm saying? Go get you a quick check when you mess your money up.

I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

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.