Nikki Glaser Quotes

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

Honestly, it's a sad truth, but whenever a show is about to go off air, you start getting hints because the work environment and quality changes.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

A lot of people think, 'Oh, you made 'SNL.' You're set. You're good.' No. All there is gigs, and you go from one gig to another. And hopefully you get a good gig, and it lasts for a while, and you get good work and people remember it, and you have good memories of it.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.

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

I think there's so much that is out of our control as actors, and it's just really hard to market yourself in such a huge industry.

I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.

The entertainment industry isn't secure.

Normally we go in, we do a series and then that's it, we're axed!

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.

There are so many shows that go on endlessly until they lose their original spark, or mysteries that are cancelled before they ever get a chance to payoff.

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

I do realize that television shows end.