I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that.
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.
As soon as we finish a tour, I think, 'Oh my god, I'm unemployed.' I swear to God, every time I'm not touring, I hear my father yelling, 'You're unemployed if you're not working every day.'
Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.
I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.
Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.
I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.
I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.
I never worry about my next assignment, am never concerned when I'm out of work.
Since I was 15 I've lived in fear that I'd never work again.
When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.
I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.
If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.
For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.
