If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Acting is completely different from the standup world. You have these 12- or 14-hour days, but you have a great time doing it. It's like hanging out with your friends.
The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.
I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.
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.
I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.