Marisa Miller Quotes

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities.

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

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

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.

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

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

I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles.

I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

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.

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.