Mariel Hemingway Quotes

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

I was not thinking about getting into acting in any way.

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.