Morgan Brittany Quotes

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 been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

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.

I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job.

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

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

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

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.