Beth Grant Quotes

I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too.

There are a lot of times where people think I'm in things that I'm not in, because they think I'm Kumail Nanjiani.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.

If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.