Dave Franco Quotes

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.

I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'