Short-Term Work Quotes

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

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.

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

I've done some sitcoms here and there, but nothing long term.

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.

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.

I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

Often, there is a job - say, for a voiceover or an appearance - and you think: 'Blimey!' From the outside it would seem like you are being paid a lot for a short amount of your time. It would be inappropriate to share how much they pay, but in the industry we call it 'doing a bank raid'. Unfortunately, those jobs do not happen every week.

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.