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I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

— Ato Essandoh

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

— Mary Page Keller

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

— Troy Garity

I never thought about being an actor.

— Danny Glover

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

— Seth Rogen

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

— Sam Neill

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

— Ed Asner

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

— Dick Van Patten

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

— Jim Parsons

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

— Martin Freeman

✗Opposing Perspectives

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

— Ving Rhames