Nico Santos Quotes

We ask actors to come to work ready to open a vein, to be emotionally thin-skinned. If someone screams, 'What about my coffee?' it's not about the coffee; it's because they're working in an emotional state. It ain't easy being an actor.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there's so much stress that often you don't even pay attention to the luxuries.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

As actors, we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically, which no one sees.

I've had scenes where I had to cry, and by the time I've cried for the 20th time, I'm exhausted.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

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 exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

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

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

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.