Acting Struggle Quotes

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a character. That's why I'm an actor.

When I first came into acting, I had great opportunities to make a decent movie. I had a run there in 2005, '06, '07 - for a long time it was "Oh, he's the best thing in the movie that's not that good." I started questioning: Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed in wrestling a bit longer? And then budgets became lower and lower and the pay kinda stayed the same and there wasn't a lot of growth.

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

It is very difficult for me to accept the fact that I am acting in front of the camera.

I was a struggling actor all my life.

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

All of the sudden people say, "She's got tits and legs and blond hair. Let's talk to her!" I've been paying dues for years in modeling. Not only that, it took a month and a half of Chuck Russell, The Mask's director, and Jim Carrey trying to get New Line to say O.K. on me. I didn't sleep; I had an ulcer. Of course, when people talk of paying their dues, they mean years of going to acting school and auditionin.

I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

In fact, my role in 'Jinda' was tough because I couldn't relate to it in any way.

Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.

I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

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

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.

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.'

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

'Cuckoo's Nest' was my first film, and I had wanted to do film for some time, but somehow I had not clicked. I would go in for interviews or readings, and I never had the sense that I was anywhere near what they were looking for.