Shannon Purser Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

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.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

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.

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

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

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

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

My career after 'Life Unexpected' took a really big dip, and I realized you have no control as an actor over the process of going to work.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.