Jim Parsons Quotes

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 far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

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

I was a struggling actor all my life.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

There's just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

I'm just a working actor.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

I'd like to be a steadily working actor and to do as many things as possible. I'm really enjoying the life.

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just amazing to get to work on your art on a daily basis and do what you love.

Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?

It's really good to be a working actor.

It was always my goal to be a working actor.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.