Paul Feig Quotes

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

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.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

It's a long struggle being an actor; I don't know if I'd ever recommend it to anybody!

I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.

I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when an actor's film fail back-to-back.

The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.

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

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

I don't ever feel like I have to stop myself from complaining about how hard it is to be an actress. I mean, it's not that hard.

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.

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

To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky.

You do get used to the ups and downs, the rejection of auditions and not getting parts, and so when you do get a job, it feels really special, and you try to hold onto it for as long as you can.