I told my parents I
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
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- When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, ‘I think I heard you say lawyer.’ – Maz Jobrani
- 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
- I’ve been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself. – Rick Schroeder
- I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It’s not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends’ dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer,
- My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don’t think I would have been very happy. I’d be in front of the jury singing. – Jennifer Lopez
- There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, ‘This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.’ I just wish they’d say, ‘It ain’t the truth.’ – Emilia Clarke
- The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. – Steve Martin
- The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. – Steve Martin
- My generation’s parents told their children, ‘Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.’ But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that’s hard to outsource, hard to automate. – Daniel H. Pink
- I think, you know, when you’re an actor who’s had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job – to say that you’re expected somewhere, do you know what I mean? – Gillian Jacobs