Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

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.

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

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

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

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

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.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.