Shenaz Treasury Quotes

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

I think all actors, when they're not working, say, 'If I can get to this point where I'm working on a consistent basis, I'll be happy.' Of course, then, if that happens for you, and you're lucky, you find some other reason to complain. There's a joke: 'If you want to hear an actor complain, give him a job.'

Post 'Shaitan,' I felt frustrated, as I was not getting the kind of work that I wanted to do.

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

I have been driven demented in my career.

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..