Guillermo del Toro Quotes

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.

I learned how to act working in TV.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

I think I really see myself doing TV more than ever.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

I intend to do more directing TV.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.

I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.