Acting Resilience Quotes

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when an actor's film fail back-to-back.

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

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.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything.

It's difficult to find an actress prepared to play a fading star.

When I go to these auditions, I feel like I have to prove myself 10 times over... acting is a challenge.

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

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 hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

I started acting when I was seven, and I didn't get my first role till I was nine. So for two years, I was just auditioning.

Sandy Meisner would say it takes 20 years to make an actor. Some people it takes five, some people 30. And you have to have patience and forgiveness for yourself. It's hard when you see people at your age or younger becoming successful.

I think the most important thing is you have to learn to love auditioning, which I have definitely learned to love. It's going to be a huge part of your career, even if you're right at the top. You're still going to have to audition sometimes, and if you don't learn to love that, that's such a big part of what you're job's going to be.

Mohan Babu garu is one great actor who has withstood so many obstacles over the last 42 years.