Lesley Nicol Quotes

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

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

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

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

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.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

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'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.

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

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

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.

I really love being in 'Game of Thrones,' but I don't know if it's my big break.

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

I only want to be a versatile actor.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.