Ed Begley Jr. Quotes

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

I never not wanted to become an actress.

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

Acting is kind of brutal.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.

An actor is only merchandise.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

What I really want to be is an actor.

Acting is a very strange job.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

I think I discovered I wanted to be an actor when I got the first pay cheque.

I became an actor when I was 22.

I was 42 when I started to make my living as an actor.

I was constantly on stage in school, and even while I was pursuing my MBA, I knew that I wanted to eventually become an actor.

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here I was on Jonny Quest,working with all these great people from back in the golden age of Hollywood, who came up doing radio. These were journeymen, working actors. It made me proud, and gave me some insight into what acting was really about if you weren't a star.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

I’ve been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting director’s door you’ve still got to do your homework: you’ve still got to work hard.