Jenna Fischer Quotes

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

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.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

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.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

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

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

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

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

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.

I know there are insecurities in being an actor. There are certain compromises you need to make, but they are all worth it.

Being an actor is hard. It's so true... auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

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 an actor, I was just satisfied to work.