Unsuccessful Actors Quotes

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

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

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.