David Morrissey Quotes

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

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.

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

When you are an actor, you are in the most powerless position in this business.

I was rejected for many-many films.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

Acting is a life of rejection.

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

I was a stage-struck kid.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

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

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

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 auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway. It didn't work out.

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating career you can be in.

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

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

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.