Ari Graynor Quotes

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

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

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

There's a really sweet spot with acting where you've finished a job, and you've got another one coming up in three or four months' time. That's my favourite period of unemployment.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

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.'

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

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

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

It's a fun job, but actors are like vagabonds and must go where the work is.

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

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

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

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

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.

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

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.

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.

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 essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.