David Wroblewski Quotes

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and evolved into it. Once you get into it, however, it's very difficult to get out. It gets into your blood. You don't want to do anything else. You want that excitement.

I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.

I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!' But now I think it's just been one big enterprise of illustrating. I used to do it with colored pencils, and now I do it with this voice and this set of limbs.

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.