Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

When I got dropped, no one really wanted to work with me... I felt like my career was over and I didn't really know what to do.

I had quite a tumultuous start to my career. I used to have two really good games but then my form would dip. I don't think people really understood me and I ended up dropping to the bench.

I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do. For about six months, I did this job in recruitment and I was just so awful at it. I jumped before I was pushed.

I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.

People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between where you're waiting for the phone to ring, or you're waiting to hear about things.

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.

There have been times when our career is uncertain, the film industry can be beautiful and judgmental at the same time. There are times when I thought of staying back and giving up.

I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.

It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.