Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.
I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.
I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.
To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
I've had the struggling actor experience. At one point in New York, I was holding four jobs, including bottle service girl, while I was trying to break into acting.
I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.
I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.
Temping is the worst. I would rather starve and be homeless than nanny or temp again.
The people working in the administration of this president [Donald Trump] do not know from day to day whether their job exists of what it is.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
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.
