Struggling Actors Quotes

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.

I know many big stars who asked for work when they were out of it.

I know a lot of really good actors - tons, just tons - who I still don't know why they don't work all the time because they're that good. It's just a weird business, and I know a lot of actors who shouldn't be working, but they work all the time.

I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or a job, or deserved more, and just never made it through somehow. I've always been really fiercely tethered to that. You know, I've been very lucky. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

Millions of people come every day to Mumbai to fulfill their acting dreams. Being one of them is always tough.

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

Actors who are talented try to take a jump and start their career from Bollywood. But when they don't get enough recognition, they come back to other options.

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.

It's very tough for someone who doesn't have a filmi background to get work in Bollywood. It's not a smooth ride unless you are really lucky. But I think one has to be prepared for that.

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.