Katherine Waterston Quotes

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

An actor's life is fairly lonely.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.

I really respect actors much more now that I am one because I realise what hard work goes into being part of the industry.

It's hard; this business of acting is hard.

It's every actor's dream to be called the character's name.

I learnt a lot as a child actor. Since I had been before the camera, I knew how it would be to be on a set or on a shoot. That way it was easy for me when I re-entered the industry as the main lead.

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.