Lucille Ball Quotes

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

I wanted a Broadway credit, but 'Crazy Ex' came along, and it blessed me.

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do anymore TV shows.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

I love my 'Walking Dead' family. This is the best job I ever had.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

There will be a time very shortly that I just might not be in front of the camera at all, and I might just be behind the scenes. I love doing television, though. I don't necessarily love being in front of the camera.

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

My plan was to go to New York and do some theatre, and then I got the script for 'Psych.' I was like, 'Ahh - just as I thought I was out, you pulled me back in!' I had a great meeting with the show creator and we laid out the parameters to make the show work: what I would do, what he would let me do.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I love being a television actor. I love the relationship that I have with my fans, and all of those things. I'm ready to have a show that really hits big. I'm excited to do another six years or more of a show like I did on 'Reba.'

I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'