I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
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With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.
An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.
Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.
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