Jobbing Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.

Ryan Kwanten

#3. It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

Johnny Vegas

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#9. I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

Michael Gough

#10. When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Colin Wilson

#11. There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.

Brigham Young

#12. The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Vladimir Putin

#13. What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

Stephen Schwartz

#14. A true artist feels it, a jobbing artist thinks it

Russell C. Brennan

#15. If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

Stephen Hawking

#16. Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

John Millington Synge

#17. You can graciously live through every struggle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

George Papandreou

#19. Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

Rob James-Collier

#20. I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John)
I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Matthew Goode

#22. 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