Esai Morales Quotes

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.

Acting is a tough business to break into.

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.

I've actually had a great career in Hollywood. I've been a working actor my whole life.

You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

What I really want to be is an actor.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

There are a lot of perks when you're an actor. Free food at work was my second favorite in the beginning, but my first was the weird stuff. Like seeing celebrities in no makeup and finding out what they ate.

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.