Actors Quote by Matthew Lillard

In actual fact, I wanted to be an actor, but I was a lawyer, and I was a week away from qualifying and was…

— Gerard Butler

Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways…

— Tibor Fischer

I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre…

— William Shatner

One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as…

— Michael Imperioli

My agent advised me to quit the business. He told me that if I continued acting I was facing a few bad years and…

— Nicholas Hammond

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that…

— Nicholas Brendon

My agents were like "Come to L.A., we've got meetings for you." I was like "No, I'm doing this now." Then my father became…

— Olivia Williams

I did so many acting jobs for nothing. I was in a play that opened on Christmas Eve above a police precinct on 54th…

— Bobby Cannavale

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of…

— Billy Crudup

When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could…

— Dennis Farina

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that…

— Nathan Fillion

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first…

— Paul Haggis