Quotes About Career

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I'm an actor, after all, and I need to be able to pay my rent.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something that they didn't want to do to pay the rent.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.

I'd always keep going back to the acting. Once the rent was paid, and the phone bill, the next money you had was for acting classes.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.

As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.

Acting is a job and it pays the rent. I don't do it for fun.

I had a meeting a while back with a big group of women - actors and producers and writers - who are all ethnic minorities and we just aired what we thought was happening and why, and someone said that, as a black or mixed race actress, you feel like you're renting space instead of carving out a career. But I'm just going to get on with it.

My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

If you're putting in the hours to improve your skills and open up new opportunities, a car repair shouldn't compromise your future.