Maggie Siff Quotes

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.