George Clooney Quotes

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

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

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.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

Acting is a youthful profession.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

There are so many talented young actors in the industry. I'm just happy to have a job!

I never understood actors who could just wait around.