Laura Prepon Quotes

I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

The thing about this business is you have to take the work while you can.

As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

I'm lucky in that the media is much more freelancey. So I didn't have that pressure that lots of people have if you jump off the ladder, then you get left behind.

Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four episodes for them, but they kept me on, and I was like, 'Sweet! I'm still employed! That's awesome!' And then, they let me know that they were considering having me for the second half of the season.

I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

In order to make any kind of living, you cannot afford to say no. If anything comes up, you've got to take it; you've got to grab it with both hands because security is really not there.

If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Our present numbers are so happily proportioned to our wants that no man need be idle.

I am very lucky in that if I don't get a job for six months or a year, I've got other things I can do and am fit enough to still do physical work.

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.