I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.
The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
People love talking about how much an actor makes. A lot of headline space is dedicated to this.
Actors make less than you think.
Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.
There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.
I probably make more money in a year on 'Newhart' than 70 percent of your working top-name stars. Some weeks I just have six lines, but it doesn't bother me.
I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.
There are probably less than 100 actors who make more than we do across our empire.
