Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

I knew that I was just one of those actors who came to Mumbai to achieve their dreams. I knew that nobody would welcome me with open arms and auditions were the only way to get a chance.

I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!

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.'

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.