Thomas Haden Church Quotes

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

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.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It's hard in the sense that it's very uncertain.

T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

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

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

Though sometimes you hit, sometimes you don't get the kind of roles you should get, but sometimes you get the role.

As an actor, you spend years getting ready for an opportunity to arise, and when it does, you're ready for it.

I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.