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.
Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.
Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.
As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
I've managed to catch lightning in a bottle a couple times. I'm very lucky. But I want to do this forever. I enjoy it so much. One of the challenges as an actor is to stay relevant.
If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.
I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.
I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.
I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.
I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.
If you're an actor, if you're not writing as well, or you're not going to improv classes, there are long spurts where you're not physically in production - unless you're Channing Tatum at this moment right now - where you need to be doing something.
I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.
I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.
It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.
In this industry, very few actors can control their career.
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.
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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 really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
