Fatima Sana Shaikh Quotes

You do get used to the ups and downs, the rejection of auditions and not getting parts, and so when you do get a job, it feels really special, and you try to hold onto it for as long as you can.

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.

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 a young actor, you hear 'no' every single day for years on end.

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 have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

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've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

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.

There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

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.'

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share.

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.