Robert Picardo Quotes

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

My mum sent me to an open audition for 'Notes On A Scandal' so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was 'Atonement.'

I acted in my first film while in my second year of degree college, in 1978.

I forayed into films in 1974, and I was done with college in 1975.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

I was an actor who happened to be a kid.

I've had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it's such a different thing to do a television show, and I'm very lucky to be able to do them both.

I am delighted to have won a place in both Tamil and Telugu film industry.

I used to assist my chachaji in his artificial jewellery business. One day, I got the opportunity to visit V. Shantaram's film set to supply some jewellery. Curiosity got the better of me and before I knew it, I was playing an extra. Soon, roles with dialogues followed and the rest as they say, is history.

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

It's been a pretty amazing experience, getting to go from 'Bosch' to 'The Vampire Diaries' back-to-back, with a little 'Castle' in between.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

It was a surprise for my family when I told them that I was offered 'Madras Cafe.' My family was initially worried because I have got no film background.