Jesse Williams Quotes

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

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.

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 a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

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

Like many actors, I'm very grateful, I feel very fortunate, very lucky to be able to make a living with what I do and what I love. I'm surprised and grateful all the time.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

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.

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.

There's so many things I want to accomplish in the world of acting. But, the two most important are that I want to keep paying the bills and I want to get better. That's about it. I enjoy what I do. I'll stay busy. I've been lucky.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

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.

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.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

There are so many talented young actors in the industry. I'm just happy to have a job!

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

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 have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.