Andrew Keenan-Bolger Quotes

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.

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

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

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

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

I think there's so much that is out of our control as actors, and it's just really hard to market yourself in such a huge industry.

Being an actor is hard. It's so true... auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.

If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

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

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

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

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

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

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

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