Brad Goreski Quotes

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

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

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.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

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

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance.

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

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

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

I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.

People really don't understand what actors do.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.