Ali Fazal Quotes

When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorable curly-haired alien in the miniseries 'V' on NBC. 'V' was a hit, and then got green-lit as a series. During the hiatus, the only job I auditioned for that fit my schedule was 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' That's the real reason I said yes.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

I used to be a model, but acting was never on my mind.

I didn't debut in a film playing a diva.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off.

I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.

It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.