Prateik Babbar Quotes

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

I landed about one a year. Just enough to make me question the gas money and all the driving in rush hour. When you audition for commercials, it's a lot of driving. What I netted wasn't exactly matching the hours I was putting in. I figured I'm not a face that makes people want to buy Lysol. Then I auditioned for Progressive.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

Before getting into movies, I decided to get modeling or acting assignments in Delhi.

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

It's really good to be a working actor.

I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials.

After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.