Rochelle Aytes Quotes

I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.

Sure, I'd love to be on primetime, but if I'm blessed enough to be picked up by another soap, thank God! It's so hard out there. And when you're not working, you feel horrible. You don't know when you'll get the next job. You don't know how long the soap genre will be around. I want to help keep these shows on the air and keep everybody working!

Unfortunately, there aren't enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career.

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

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

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

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

I hope through 'The Family Man,' I get some good offers.

The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.

Honestly, I have got some movie offers. But, TV has given me a sense of stability.

I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.

When I was 13, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue television and film roles. I booked shows like 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager,' 'Liv and Maddie,' and 'Teen Wolf.'

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.