Marc Warren Quotes

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

All my life, I struggled to get roles.

Like any other aspirational actor, I wanted to be a part of films.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

Acting is a life of rejection.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

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 was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

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.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

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

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

Before I was an actor, I was a fan.

I don't know a single actor who is not picky.

I only want to be a versatile actor.