Felicity Jones Quotes

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

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

Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

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

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

Being actors is a strange job.

I don't know what the next acting job will be. I would love to do a comedy.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.

I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.