Alex Sharp Quotes

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

I just wanted to be an actor. I was hoping for opportunities to unveil, and I wanted to make the most of whatever came my way.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

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

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

As an actor, I am looking for diverse 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 began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

I am keen to prove myself as an actor.