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As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

— Aaron Douglas

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

— Travis Fimmel

There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

— Gary Sinise

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

— Tina Fey

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

— Elden Henson

As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

— Bette Midler

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

— Sam Neill

I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

— D. B. Sweeney

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

— Julianne Moore

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

— David Morse