Gedde Watanabe Quotes

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

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.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

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

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

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

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.

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.

It's really good to be a working actor.

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

I had never imagined that after coming to Mumbai that, as an actor, my dates would be booked in six-eight months in advance.

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.

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.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

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 am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.