Leslie Hope Quotes

In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

I've grown up in Mumbai, did college from Mumbai, many colleges, actually - Jai Hind, Ruia, Andrews, Wilson, Whistling Woods... Then I worked as a production assistant with Prahlad Kakar, and then I started acting.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

I've acted just to get to directing.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

I would love to do films. It's just the way things happened for me - I ended up doing a lot of TV.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.