Frank Silva Quotes

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

Acting is a tough business to break into.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

I only got into show business because I quit football.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

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

I would love to be on Broadway!

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.