Matthew McGrory Quotes

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

I've had a career where people still remember all these shows I've been on. It's quite cool; I just want to do stuff that people like.

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

I remember having a feeling like, 'I can't believe this is happening!' Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, 'Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!'

Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

I would love to do a television show in New York City.

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.