Victoria Hamilton Quotes

I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.

I was like, 'Whoa, I'm auditioning for 'Hunger Games?' That's like my dream come true. That's like a Trekkie auditioning for 'Star Trek.'

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.

I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

Every movie I've done, when they cast me, they knew I'd probably do it for a toffee apple and a Frappuccino.

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.