Parineeti Chopra Quotes

I'm always looking for work. There are only two states of being an actor, so if I'm not working, I'm looking for employment.

Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

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

It's definitely one of those things when you decide to be an actor that it would be really cool to be in a Broadway show or a series regular on a hit show.

I want a TV series, I'm gonna do some acting jobs, I'm gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!

If I wasn't acting, I would be trying to break into acting.

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

I know how difficult it is for actors to get work, because I did casting for all those years.

Becoming an actress was just about being in the right place at the right time.

I was probably about 10 years old when I said to Mom, 'I'd really like to pursue a career in front of the camera.'

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'