Jeanne Cooper Quotes

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.

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 in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

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

When you're an actor, it's really great to be busy - that's what we all want!

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

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.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character 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, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

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

As an actor, you're never busy enough.