Elden Henson Quotes

I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.

If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

I want to have the great roles that move people profoundly. I want to have the choice and be given the opportunity to play those roles, and unfortunately, fame plays a huge part in that.

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

I'm a character actor at heart.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

I have to say, I feel really lucky. I've had a lot of great characters to play.

It doesn't have to happen for anybody at all, this acting game, so you have to count your blessings. If I am lucky that the right things have come along at the right time, I'm just going to ride that wave.

I think all the roles were something that sort of hit me, and I guess I was very lucky to get those roles.

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

I don't believe I did anything earth shattering as an actor.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.