People told me when I
People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
– Claudia Black
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- I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they’re just happy I’m in work! – Emilia Clarke
- Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. – Bob Black
- Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice – a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn’t. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things. – Dhani Jones
- If there’s unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It’s not driving out competition; it’s not crowding out. – Jeremy Grantham
- What television gets to do, and there’s a reason why ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ works as well as it does, is that it deals with the relationships. It deals with the very small, interpersonal ways that people both love and hate each other. – Jeffrey Bell
- Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. – Claudia Black
- That’s the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that – you know, I live a pretty simple life, I’m not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So
- I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who’d done a bit of television before, a young actor called Ewan McGregor. That was very first thing. This writer had won this competition, and I made this little short, black and white movie. I think for both Ewan
- When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, ‘I think I heard you say lawyer.’ – Maz Jobrani
- “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain