Acting Frustration Quotes

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.

I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

I don't love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours - like, I really don't like it - and then having a part that's just not that challenging.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always doing that were always the comic relief... it was destroying my soul.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

Acting's boring.

It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.

Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.

You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."

I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.

I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.

I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.