Ian Ziering Quotes

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

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

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

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

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

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.

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

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

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

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

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.

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

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.