Paul Dano Quotes

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

After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

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

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.

In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

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've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

'Smallville' was one of those things where we worked a lot of nights, and there were a lot of physical scenes. I was hurt a lot, but I loved it! The 'Revenge' cast was also one of the greatest, most gracious casts I've ever been a part of.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.

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

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

I never think of myself as a big star. Getting good scripts is all I think about. I don't have a godfather or anyone to take care of me. To move forward, I have to be very careful in choosing the right scripts, the right director, and the right technicians.

It's self-destructive to become confident regarding your own acting. Acting, your entire career depends on a lot of things. What kind of writing is working, the kind of filmmaking which is prevalent, all these factors in.