Actor Struggle Quotes

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

When my sister decided that she wanted to act, I was so nervous for her. She's doing great, but I have a lot of friends at every level of success as an actor, and we all go through periods of time where they feel like their worth isn't within their own control. That's a horrible feeling for an adult to have.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have. I think if you're one of a lucky five, maybe, you're that privileged, but most of us are living paycheck to paycheck and we're really extremely grateful for opportunities.

It's a fight for every actor to surpass what they have done in their previous film, especially when it is accepted hugely.

I think being on 'Weeds,' in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college-going boy in 'Orange.'

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we are established, we get paid fairly well. But at times, if an actor asks for a hike, he/she may even get boycotted.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.

I know how difficult it is to be an actor and work and then have to look after your personal life.

I can't do TV; I think I'll die as an actor first and then as a person.

It's just a dream of the struggling actor to just have a proper shot - not just in a film that people will see, but with a character that's rich and complicated and that you can show you're capable of taking on.

I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.

Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'

As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.