Nikki Reed Quotes

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.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

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

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

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

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.

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 am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

I've only ever really been in shows of friends, so I don't know exactly what happened. I think I'm incredibly cheap to hire. That can buy some traction. I'm as cheap as it's possible for an actor to be legally.

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 mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

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?'

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

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.

It's really good to be a working actor.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.