Leslie Hope Quotes

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.

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

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

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.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

I'm just a working actor.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

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

It's really good to be a working actor.

It was always my goal to be a working actor.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

As an actor, you want to work every day of your life. You have to work hard, look and think positive, and the work just starts coming your way.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.