Joss Whedon Quotes

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

I'm in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you're my age, and you're male, and you're trying to get work, you're going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.

I definitely want to do other things outside of acting like producing, directing.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.

I have worked in both comedy films and romance.

Los Angeles is much like Mumbai, the film industry rules the city over most other professions, so it feels like home.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where they don't play pretend for a living is that... Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.

My dream job is definitely to be an actor/director/writer, all three.

I have done a lot of television serials in order to make ends meet.

I would love to act in Bengali movies, but the work culture here is pathetic.

When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

Right before I got The West Wing, I was pretty much out of money. When I first came in to Warner Brothers, Aaron Sorkin was there. Of course I was nervous; I'm sitting here in front of the guy who wrote "You can't handle the truth!".

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.