Tana French Quotes

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

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

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

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

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

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.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

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

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

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

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.

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

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

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.

There are times when you get several great, exciting roles; there are times when you don't.

It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

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.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

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

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

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

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.