Alex Meraz Quotes

I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

I am happy that I am getting roles to prove my acting calibre.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the 'best' in your chosen field, whatever it is.

I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

The wealthy are confident in their abilities to overcome bad situations - on the job, in their personal lives, with their finances. Many have triumphed over dismal financial starts. And, unlike most of the population that hops from job to job, career to career, the wealthy are much more likely to stick with what they start.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

I lived job-to-job before 'Magic Mike.' It certainly has meant a lot to me from a financial standpoint.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.