Troy Garity Quotes

Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

That's what I really focused on in school - straight drama - and I would love to get an opportunity to do that.

I was the first person in the family to be an actor.

You know, I come from an acting background.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.