Viola Davis Quotes

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

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're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

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.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.

I don't want to just be another actor in L.A. looking for a job.

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.