Bret Harrison Quotes

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

I didn't study acting.

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

People really don't understand what actors do.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

I've managed to catch lightning in a bottle a couple times. I'm very lucky. But I want to do this forever. I enjoy it so much. One of the challenges as an actor is to stay relevant.

Listen, when you're starting out you're trying to be as creative as possible about how you can use your skills as an actor to make money.

You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I like everything about acting.

Acting is a youthful profession.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

Acting is such a weird job.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.