Best 26 quotes of Aya Cash on MyQuotes

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy.

Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis.

For years while I was working as a waitress, all I wanted to do was get on a TV show. You think, "This will solve all the problems. I'm making more than 400 dollars a week; I don't have to worry about money ever again," but it's just not true.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have to dig deeper and you have to find different parts of yourself that are not necessarily the first thing you access and that's fun and interesting.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.