Chris Eigeman Quotes

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.

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

I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

Acting is a life of rejection.

I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.

I was lucky enough to get into drama school in London back in 2005, and I was there for three years, and in those three years, we did a lot of theater. A lot of classical training.

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.

I didn't know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed 'acting school.' I found one in Berlin, and I found ones in Vienna, Zurich, and London. I went to all of those places to audition. You were supposed to have two monologues, and I only had one.

I left drama school in the early '50s.

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

I studied performing arts at college and wanted to act.