Chris Zylka Quotes

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.

Honestly, I know it sounds corny, but as an actor, I'm just so happy to have a job.

I like to work. I feel blessed that I'm working.

I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.

The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me.

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

Jobs, jobs, jobs.

I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.

If I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

So many people in this world get up every day and go to their nine-to-five job they hate for 12 months a year for 30 years. I kind of do a self-check and evaluation to realize I'm very blessed and grateful to be where I am.

I've received enough blessings for a lifetime in terms of my employment.

I'm a practical actor and work keeps me occupied. It takes care of my bills, so there are many reasons for which I work.