Joel Murray Quotes

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

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

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

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.'

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

It's really good to be a working actor.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

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

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

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 used to visit one production house every day, and I used to take up auditions even for small roles. Before my debut, I must have auditioned at almost every single production house.

I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.