Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes

What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

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

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.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

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.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

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

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others. Everyone else decides if you did a good job and you have to wait for other people's permission to work as an actor.

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.

I don't want to just be another actor in L.A. looking for a job.

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

When I didn't work on TV, that was OK because I was doing lots of theatre but I did begin to panic a bit.

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there's so much stress that often you don't even pay attention to the luxuries.

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.