Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

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

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

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

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills.

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.

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

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

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

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

Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept 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 still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

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

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

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.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and you just hope the work keeps coming.

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

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.