Unsustainable Career Quotes

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

You can't do anything else once you do game shows. You have no career.

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they're going to start believing you. And then at some point, they're going to start questioning you and say, 'Why, if it's so bad, are you doing it?'

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction.

When you're not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

There's little money in theatre.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.