Leigh Whannell Quotes

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.

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.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

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.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.

I never mind going in for an audition for something.

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.

If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

It's self-destructive to become confident regarding your own acting. Acting, your entire career depends on a lot of things. What kind of writing is working, the kind of filmmaking which is prevalent, all these factors in.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.