Alexa Davalos Quotes

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.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

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.

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

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'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

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.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

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

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

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

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

I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It's just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.

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.

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.

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

It's a tough journey as an actor in Los Angeles.

When you're an aspiring actor, you do so many self-tapes that it gets to a certain point where you have to develop a thick skin, otherwise you will never survive.