Charlie Heaton Quotes

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

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

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

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.

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

I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

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

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

I rarely meet other young actors.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.