Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

I am an actor through and through.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

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

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 grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

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.'

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

If I wasn't acting, I would be trying to break into acting.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

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

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.