Jerry Hall Quotes

I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

Acting is what I'd always wanted to do; hosting 'The Soup' was more because of Greg Kinnear.

I could have earned lots of crores by doing hundreds of more 'Rangeela' that came my way.

I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.

When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

Hopefully I'll get to make another movie, so we'll see. But modeling - all the actresses are taking everything over now, with all the modeling endorsements and magazine covers.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.