“As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.” LittlesWishActingCareersRolesDirectorsPoundsCall MeDiverseCastingLightersCasting Directors Author:James Preston Rogers
“It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it.” PeopleWayTryingSportsActingCareersPercentEntertainmentStrideProfessional SportsSports Entertainment Author:John Cena
“Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.” HumansDifferentWould BeChallengesHuman BeingsLevelsActingCareersMaterialsFindingsActressesFrustrationTherapeuticDifferent Levels Author:Vera Farmiga
“Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.” HeartActingCareersWiseMy Heart Author:Rashida Jones
“I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.” Would BeActingCareersHeroExpectedDramaticDeanMy Hero Author:Jim Carrey
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.” PeopleIfsShouldTryingKindMayMeanEndsGuyFallActingCareersFiguresFlowChipsManipulateEclectic Author:Clint Howard
“When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.” IfsYearsMadeJobsActingCareersFourWeekTvsNeededDecidedCastsIf I CouldTake MeProtectedSurfMorris Author:Thomas Haden Church
“I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."” YearsActingCareers Author:Tom Ellis
“Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.” KindLongTermActingCareersTraditionTheaterLong TermProgressive Author:Sigourney Weaver
“I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.” PeopleWantWritingStillsActingCareersPathFocused Author:Julianne Hough
“For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.” WayWellsPlayWantedJobsDifficultActingAcceptingCareersHabitDirectorsTheaterMy WayAspirationDefault Author:James Cromwell
“Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.” ThinkingBelieveSidesGoalTermDealsActingCareersCapacityRelationFinancialTomsCruiseFinancial Goals Author:Val Kilmer
“You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.” ActorsActingCareersSeeingMembersCrew Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Poetry has in a way been my bridge to my acting career. I had so many questions about my life, so I took to poetry to express my questions. I had questions about politics, family relationships, and more.” WayActingCareersBridgesFamily Relationship Author:Omari Hardwick
“I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my heart being broken. I wrote about my views whether they were liberal or conservative. I wrote about everything. I wrote about my life. When I did not have paper coming in as green backs, I'd use random pieces of paper for stories. It was like, I got no money, but I have paper to write. So I wrote.” WritingHeartHelpingStoriesUseViewsActingCareersPiecesJourneyBrokenMy HeartPaperGreenMedicineConservativeHelp MeNo MoneyHeart BreakBeing Broken Author:Omari Hardwick
“I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.” LongCertainLevelsActingExistenceCareersPoetFameRaisedSteadyMurphyBrittany Author:Amber Tamblyn
“I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.” SaidWholeFactsShowsActingCareersRolesTvsFameOriginalsSingersComedianLos AngelesTv ShowsThey Said Author:Christian Kane
“I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.” IfsThinkingKnowsPersonsStillsEyeJobsPoliticalNextCausesSimpleActingCareersMorningRedProfessionStableAuditionsDisappointingRed Eye Author:Corey Stoll