Arthur Darvill Quotes

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.

I'm very serious about acting.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.

I've never been fired from an acting job.

I've always just tried to continue to be a working actor and let the work speak for itself as opposed to promoting myself as someone who needs to be in everybody's living room.

I started at drama school at 18.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

As actors, we have to say yes to everything for a really long time. You say 'Yes' to anything you can get.

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

Even now, when people come up to me and say, 'My kid's an actor. They want to move to L.A. What should they do?' Even if you wanted to help them as much as possible, there's really nothing you can do.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.