Alex Pettyfer Quotes

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

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'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

I think most actors don't start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to work, whatever manifestation that takes.

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.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

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.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

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 recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

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.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

I'm not good at Disney acting. I'm really not. I never was on that audition list, which I don't mind. I don't know. I look back, and I'm kind of wiping my forehead at the thought of, 'What if I had gone that route?'

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

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.

My brother and I always intended to get back into acting. We just wanted to take a break because, I think, coming off of the seven-year run of 'The Suite Life,' we wanted to detach ourselves from that idea a little bit.

I have been in Los Angeles for a long time, and I have wanted to be a series lead for a long time. It's literally on my bucket list.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.