Mamie Gummer Quotes

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.

Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.

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

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.'

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

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

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning.

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've been on over 1000 auditions.

Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.

If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.