Colin O'Donoghue Quotes

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

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, 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.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

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

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

I'm always surprised that I get called to work. I always feel the way I felt when I was 24 or 25 trying to get a job. I'm amazed I have my SAG card and my Equity card.

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.

The thing about acting is everybody thinks you make a ton of money. And the money is good when you're working. But you can go a long time between jobs.

All my life, I struggled to get roles.

Being an actor is hard. It's so true... auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.

I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

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

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.