Martin Milner Quotes

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

My first professional audition was for a radio play in Manchester. That was the first audition that I got. It was my first paid job, which I think was, like, £150, and I thought it was megabucks.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.

When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

Definitely when you get handed roles like Joel in 'The Last of Us,' that's something that will change your life, and I learned so much from that role.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point.

I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.

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

Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.

I met some lifelong friends doing 'The Archers.'

I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.

I did 'The Commish' and an episode of 'Neon Rider,' and then I got the series called 'Street Justice,' which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.