Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.
I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
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.
I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.
I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.
I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.
If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.
I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.