Michael Ironside Quotes

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

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

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

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

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

I started acting, when I was 15, in commercials and guest roles. I was definitely a working actor, so I was thankful for that. But I never had to work at a store, although I would have liked to.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

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

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.

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

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

It's really good to be a working actor.

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.