Travis Fimmel Quotes

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.

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 trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

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

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 want to open an eye or two about what being an actor is really like because it's not all red carpets and photo shoots. It's like trying to get that job and going from job to job.

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

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

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

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.

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 had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

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

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

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an 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 been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

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 didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

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