Work Scarcity Quotes

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

I've never been very fully employed either.

The biggest concern for most actors has and always will be getting enough work - it's just part of our profession - but a real change is the idea that performers have to be more versatile and entrepreneurial in their careers.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

The generation before me certainly told me that there would come a point when there were fewer parts, telling me to make hay while the sun shone. There was a time in my late thirties when I thought that it was something I had to get myself ready for, that things were going to slow down as I hit 40.

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

There's enough really good actors out of work without me trying to steal any of it.

All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around.

People get upset when I say most of the time serials are for those who are desperate for work.

Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.

In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it's important to create the work.