Lane Kiffin Quotes

This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

I got fired from WWE and it felt like our lives got turned upside down.

The idea of a family sitting round the kitchen table and carefully planning their future family size based on the certainty of years to come is a complete fantasy. Back in the real world, jobs are lost, livelihoods taken away, families break apart, partners leave or pass away.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.