Bradley Whitford Quotes

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

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

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.

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

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

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.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for months by network executives who have probably never acted in anything since their junior high school production of 'The Wiz.'

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

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

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

It's a long struggle being an actor; I don't know if I'd ever recommend it to anybody!

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

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

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

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.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

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

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.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

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

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 an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.