Garry Marshall Quotes

I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor telling me to take pictures and encouraging me. But when the music thing didn't work out, I became a photographer's assistant. And then I caught the bug.

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

I thought there would be a lot of, you know, transferable skills, from acting and comedy, but there weren't that many!

I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.

I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

I became an actor by accident.