Dee Wallace Quotes

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

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

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

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

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

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.

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.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

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.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.

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.

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.

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

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.