Cut out to be an actor

Q. Why did you question yourself? You seem to be someone who is very confident of himself.
A: "For the very same reason, I think. You know that you are putting in your best and it fails. It is disheartening. You know that you gave it your best and the realisation that your best isn't good enough, through seventeen films that haven't worked. One film will shake you up; seventeen will destroy you. The first few, you are nonchalant about. Then you say to yourself, 'oh, people dont know what they are talking about.' Then you become cynical about the whole thing.
"But after a while, when you open the paper every Friday and read your review and people tell you how terrible you are, you start believing that. Because 'I cant be right all the time'. And it is me against a billion people. That works on your subconscious. I remember telling my dad that I wasn't cut out to be an actor. That is why, when people liked 'Yuva', I felt that I had it in me. I just h

Please explain to me what "cut out" means here. In the dictionary, it shows it means "cease operating" which doesn't fit in this context.