Nina Conti Quotes

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

My career after 'Life Unexpected' took a really big dip, and I realized you have no control as an actor over the process of going to work.

It always amazed me - it still does - that people offer me work. And when the theater was my basic bread and butter, every time a show finished, I was convinced I would never work again.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

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

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.

You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.