Andrew Keenan-Bolger Quotes

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

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

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

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

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.

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

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

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

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.