Sal Mineo Quotes

The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Hollywood is such a fickle place, and you really have to go day to day and with the flow. Things happen so quickly, for the good or the bad. But you also have to know that everything happens for a reason.

Playing Pennywise will change my life and career forever. It's going to change my path. And who knows where that path might lead me?

The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

You can be really hot one minute, the next minute be unemployed.

The fear of every actor is when is this life going to be snatched away from me? Which is the day or year that the audience is going to decide 'that's it.'

Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I'm not deluded by the fact that I'm getting all these offers for work, I'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.

I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.

You can win your Oscar, and you still wake up trying to figure out how to get your next job.

I got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.

I don't know if I am going to become an A-lister tomorrow.

I'm here to carve out a strong career in the leading-man space.

I value my stardom a lot. I always wanted to become an actress and have loved every minute of it.

There are so many actresses who struggle for years to get where I am. It's luck that's worked for me more than hard work.

I'll be honest, acting in a commercial film has its perks - crazy stardom, crazy money and frequent trips abroad - but why would I aspire for something I'm not cut out for?