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“As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.”

Knows Sometimes Actors Waiting Offers Projects Agents Managers Who We Are Submit

Author:Navid Negahban

“I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?”

Thinking Years Actors Left Waiting Four Changed Fit Moved Four Years Cleveland

Author:Monica Potter

“My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.”

Want Actors Waiting Steps Produce Son Direct Auditions

Author:Elizabeth Perkins

“What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.”

Want Actors Waiting Car Bridges Monotonous Towels Waiting Around

Author:Chris Messina

“I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.”

Years Play Remember Actors Waiting Saws One Day Leaving Theatre Peter Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Patrick Stewart

“Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.”

Ifs Ends Actors Games Waiting Watches Tvs Video Not Sure Trailers Till The End

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.”

World Ends Jobs Next Actors Causes Bits Waiting Careers Strange Profession Bridges Thrown

Author:David Oakes

“There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.”

Thinking Knows Needs Kind Two Enough Guy Actors Waiting Rooms Crafts Backwards Dressings Polish Absorbing Dressing Rooms

Book:Clint Eastwood: interviews

Source: Clint Eastwood: interviews

“In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.”

Art Success Actors Waiting Careers Creative Special Buddhism Discipline Draws Tables Actresses Creative Art Waiting Tables

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."”

Hard Play Actors Waiting Limitation Maps Amazing Things Deviate Road Maps

Author:Jeremy Renner

“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.”

Writing Play Actors Waiting Musician Paint Painter Movie Actors

Book:A life on film

Source: A life on film

“You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.”

Knows Ends Hands Actors Waiting Cutting Agents Chests Spares Blanket Starbucks Spare Time Shakers

Author:Nick Offerman

“I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.”

Made Used Actors Waiting Wonder Seeing Fats American Movie Waiting Around

Author:Donnie Yen

“I never understood actors who could just wait around.”

Actors Waiting Understood

Author:Scott Eastwood

“Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?”

Thinking Want Needs I Can Actors Stuff Waiting Hollywood Phones Auditions Proactive

Author:Ice Cube