Boyd Holbrook Quotes

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.

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

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

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

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.

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.

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 down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

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

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

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

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

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