Elden Henson Quotes

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

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

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 gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

It's really good to be a working actor.

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

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.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

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.

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

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

All I wanted to do was be a working 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.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.