The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
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Related Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT So that would be at most $500, while the average Perkins loan is $2,000. When you do the math, the n... BRUCE CAPLIN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest... ROBERT ENGLUND The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a wh... KARRINE STEFFANS My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what... PATRICK SOON-SHIONG People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los A... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a boo... MARILYN HACKER You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't... MARISSA JARET WINOKUR Their parents and grandparents did not face the same job market. It's estimated that by the year 201... BOB WISE I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out.... JOHN KRASINSKI You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay... JOHN WOODEN When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun. BELLAMY YOUNG With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjo... DIMEBAG DARRELL I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that i... CALLIE THORNE You and a guest will fly round-trip coach from Los Angeles to New Orleans for a six-night stay at th... BOB BARKER If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that ... ZOOEY DESCHANEL Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been... ERIN KARPLUK When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that ... PATTY JENKINS When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to g... TONY HAWK I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish ... EOIN COLFER I don't know what my next dream role gig is, but I have so, so many shows that I'm like, ... ALLISON TOLMAN When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start ... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly faili... DANIEL TOSH When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain... ROBERT VAUGHN I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to wr... HOLLY BLACK On average, India makes 1,000 movies a year -- there are six to eight songs in each movie -- so that... ACHILLE FORLER What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly conti... JOHN HENSLEY When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. S... KEVIN NEALON Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You&... DANICA MCKELLAR To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art ... JAMES AVERY I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where ... JOHN CUSACK I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's... AIDAN QUINN If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book. LORII MYERS In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers... RICHARD TRUMKA Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld i... RICK RIORDAN You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it... CHRISTOPHER GUEST The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki... BARRY MANN I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the moun... DAN GILROY Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I ... LUPITA NYONG'O If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people... GARY LINEKER Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little ants... SETH MACFARLANE The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is... RANDY FALCO It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is... ETHAN SUPLEE If you only have 15 percent of the work force available for the jobs, where are the rest of the work... GEORGE HAWKINS To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. DEBASISH MRIDHA You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are invo... THALIA You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live y... BERNHARD GOETZ Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live... BERNHARD GOETZ A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to... KIM ALEXIS I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that... RAINN WILSON When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be ... JENNIE FINCH I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the b... RICK BAYLESS When you have a name actor, with a face that people recognise and a name that can go on posters or b... KELLY ASBURY I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old. AARON YOO If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted... JACK DAVENPORT Similar things apply when you are going to warm climates. In Los Angeles, where the sun is bright, s... VANESSA FRIEDMAN I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if th... PAGET BREWSTER There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co... LAURENCE FOX You can't help but be scrutinized, so I might as well be doing something while I'm being scr... HEATHER LOCKLEAR 7 Rules to a Happy Life: 1. Be humble 2. Don’t worry 3. Don't settle for les... GERMANY KENT How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect... THOMAS FRIEDMAN You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they natural... KEHLANI So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for m... IAN MCKELLEN I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where... NOLAN NORTH Hosting the Games would be not only great for Los Angeles and the nation, but also a world community... ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act... IAN SOMERHALDER [LOS ANGELES -] I'm in the movies that they dump, ... Last year we came out on the worst date, with ... COLE HAUSER Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the boo... GARTH RISK HALLBERG Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is i... RICHARD LAMM There's always only five or six guys, maybe seven or eight guys that can win. There's another 15 or ... KYLE PETTY When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing so... DAN BYRD I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles. DIABLO CODY I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six ye... OLIVIER MARTINEZ When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH Trust might be the only solution. NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest ... JASON FUCHS We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tom... DEYTH BANGER You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies. DAVID THEWLIS When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In Amer... BRYAN BROWN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy SOTONYE ANGA Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES
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BETH SMITH I want this to succeed for Tim, because if it succeeds for Tim, it succeeds for us, because we'll be... BETH SMITH He was a hard catch. That's why I say he's my biggest and best catch. BETH SMITH We're here to educate lawmakers on a poorly written bill that basically advocates for the fugitives ... BETH SMITH We need to be more aggressive with our swings, ... But they are all things we can work on. BETH SHELTON I was very pleased with our passing and defense, and we had some good heads up play, ... Overall, I ... BETH SHELTON We're going into the game giving it everything we've got and hope to come home with a win. BETH SHELTON She did very well in the tournament, but we knew she would, ... Beth is a steady player, she keeps h... BETH SHELTON We have to focus on getting hitters to transition aggressively and play strong every time, ... We go... BETH SHELTON