Jamie-Lynn Sigler Quotes

I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

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

Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.

Breaking Bad' gave me a career. It gave me more work than I could possibly imagine - I started filming it when I was 14 years old, and I finished when I was turning 21.

I've been very fortunate and never not worked.

I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.

All I ever wanted was a successful career as an actress.

I've been very fortunate in the work I've been getting.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

The entertainment industry is so vast; that's why I got into it the first place.

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

Everyone who comes to the entertainment industry wants to be a film actor. Who wants to be a television actor by choice? I want to change the perception of Indian television as being the poor man's medium.

I don't feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone's career in the film industry.

Honestly, I have got some movie offers. But, TV has given me a sense of stability.

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.

I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

I must confess that Bollywood definitely happened by chance to me, but once it did - I took it up seriously, and made a profession out of it. And it's the best feeling in the world to be enjoying your work and getting paid to do it! It doesn't get better than that.

When I got that role of Mateo in 'Superstore,' it was such a huge victory for me, professionally and personally.

I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that's gone on as long as 'The Closer' has. You really don't get to do that in this profession.