Irregular Work Quotes

Every freedman, free negro and mulatto shall, on the second Monday of January, 1866, and annually thereafter, have a lawful home or employment, and shall have written evidence thereof as follows, to wit: if living in any incorporated city, town, or village, a license from that mayor thereof; and if living outside of an incorporated city, town, or village, from the member of the board of police of his beat, authorizing him or her to do irregular and job work; or a written contract, as provided in Section 6 in this act; which license may be revoked for cause at any time by the authority granting the same.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

Session work is not a steady thing at all. You do eight of them in one week and then go three months without any. That's the way it really is.

Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.

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.

It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently.

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!