Sam Palladio Quotes

I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

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

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

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've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.

There were years in between of going to auditions pretty much every day and getting nothing.

'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.

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

I do love acting the two seconds that you are in front of the camera - and this is going to sound like I'm complaining, and I don't want that because I'm blessed to even have a job - but there is a lot of down-time when you're just sitting in your trailer.