Denis Leary Quotes

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.

The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.'' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.'

I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.

Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.

I knew I wanted to be an actor but didn't know how to go about it. That's why my ambition, initially, was not to play a lead role in a Bollywood film.

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got 'Issaq' through auditioning.

I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.