Leah Pipes Quotes

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for months by network executives who have probably never acted in anything since their junior high school production of 'The Wiz.'

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.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

Acting is a life of rejection.

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when an actor's film fail back-to-back.

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.