Jobbing Actor Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me. — Sam J. Jones

The rest of my Thursday can be summarised thus:
- Nat tells me to bite her.
- I don't.
- I am forced to sit next to Toby for the entire two-and-a-half-hour return coach journey.
- He tells me that water is not blue because it reflects the sky, but actually because the molecular structure of the water itself reflects the colour blue and therefore our art teacher is wrong and the authorities should be alerted.
- I pull my jumper over my head.
- I stay under my jumper for the next two hours. — Holly Smale

As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen. — Eve Myles

All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow. — Paddy Considine

Kim Jong Un's sister got married. That sounds like another Seth Rogen movie, doesn't it? — David Letterman

It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change. — Ricky Gervais

You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that I'm essentially a theatre trained actor and that's what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then I'm very lucky. — Kit Harington

They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey. — Charles Stross

It's been a long time. How have you been doing?"
I'm fine. How are you? You're looking very handsome today, Addolgar the Handsome, lord of my loins.
At least that was what she'd like to say to him, but instead she came out with, "Yeah, hi. — G.A. Aiken

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. — Harsha Bhogle

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.' — Ed Stoppard

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey. — Michael Gough

It can be tough as a jobbing actor. — Johnny Vegas

As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles. — Robert Englund

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the times. You must not mind stopping in the middle of a crowded thoroughfare - lorries or no lorries - and saying the Adorations; and you must not mind snubbing your guest - or your host - if he or she should prove ignorant of his or her share of the dialogue. It is perhaps because these matters are so petty and trivial in appearance that they afford so excellent a training. They teach you concentration, mindfulness, moral and social courage, and a host of other virtues. — Aleister Crowley

You have to open up on stage. — Karen O

We do pretty much whatever we want to. — Philip Johnson

This is all we get, I thought. Just quick moments of brightness that get taken away before you understand what you've been given. Then — Louisa Hall

I was doing progressively smaller movies in England, after Harry Potter ... to the point where I was doing nine-day shoots for, like, 20p and a packet of Space Invaders. And then this happened. So I'm not just another actor who's around and jobbing. When you hire me for a job, you're hiring. — Robert Pattinson

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again. — Rob James-Collier

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