Gene Hackman Quotes

I became an actor when I was 22.

I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called 'Boiling Points' on MTV.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

I did this one scene in an episode of 'General Hospital', and that was my first job down in L.A. It was, like, my second audition, and I was like, 'Woo! This is easy! This is fun!' That was a really cool moment for me.

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

I moved right to L.A., and I had a year of active unemployment. I had 50-something auditions for 50-something different projects, testing and doing callbacks, and could not get hired. And then, almost a year to the day of being out in L.A., I booked my first job, and then I started booking something every other month.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

'13 Reasons Why' was my first professional job out of college, so I don't have much to compare it to.

I've been an actor since the age of seventeen.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

I'm going to be an actor.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

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

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'

When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

I got into the acting business very young.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

I was one of the lucky people who found what I loved at a really young age. When I was 16, I got my first job in a Portuguese soap opera, and I realized how much I really loved it.