Matthew Lewis Quotes

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

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

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

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

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.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

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.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

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

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

It's really good to be a working actor.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

I think there's so much that is out of our control as actors, and it's just really hard to market yourself in such a huge industry.

When you're an actor, it's really great to be busy - that's what we all want!

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.