Erin Foster Quotes

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

There are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.

I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I can't even make it in training camp now?'

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.

No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

I used to not get work even on TV, but wherever I went, they'd treat me with respect but never offer work.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'