Ryan Merriman Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

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.

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.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

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.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

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.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

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

One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.

I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

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

The thing about acting is everybody thinks you make a ton of money. And the money is good when you're working. But you can go a long time between jobs.

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

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.