ABSTRACT
Why then do actors do it? For fame and fortune, the Break, the eternal optimism of humankind that has got it this far. Possibly. Certainly the reality, the statistics do not support that as sole motive. About 70 per cent of the acting profession is out of work at any one time, and about 30 per cent of the acting profession makes a living wage at acting alone. So, for every Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, there are a hundred actors in line at the unemployment office, and a hundred more waiting to stand and serve them in any restaurant in which they might want to sit down.
