Erin Foster Quotes

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'