Mammootty Quotes

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

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

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

I don't know what the next acting job will be. I would love to do a comedy.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

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

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

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.

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

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

I've managed to catch lightning in a bottle a couple times. I'm very lucky. But I want to do this forever. I enjoy it so much. One of the challenges as an actor is to stay relevant.

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

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

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

When I first auditioned for 'Stranger Things,' I was just living in Chicago. Just looking for a job. Working at a restaurant, doing commercials and bit parts on shows. I honestly would have been happy booking anything.

I really love being in 'Game of Thrones,' but I don't know if it's my big break.

'Zubaan' is the first film I had signed as a lead. It was an opportunity I was waiting for, coming at a time when I was getting shortlisted for roles but was unable to make the final cut.

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.