Taron Egerton Quotes

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

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.

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

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.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

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

It's really good to be a working actor.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

When you're an actor, it's really great to be busy - that's what we all want!

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

I had never imagined that after coming to Mumbai that, as an actor, my dates would be booked in six-eight months in advance.

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

I'm very happy to be a working 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.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

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.

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.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

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.