Acting Burnout Quotes

After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.

This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

It's a luxurious complaint to have as an actor, but playing the same character for many years can become routine.

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

After having been confined to a television series - and it's a luxury job - where you can't play anything but one particular character for nine months out of the year, it will make you insane. It didn't affect me. I got out quick enough.

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

I honestly don't want to act anymore.

I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.