Logan Marshall-Green Quotes

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that series ended, I thought that I would be going on more auditions and booking more jobs, but everything just came to a screeching halt.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.'

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

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'

I got my SAG card quite unexpectedly. I was here in Los Angeles doing a play called 'Vanities' - it was 1976, I believe - and I got invited by Dustin Hoffman, whom I'd met in New York, to come audition for a movie he was directing.

Down South, I never had to audition. They would call me up and give me a role.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

There was never a conscious dream to enter films.

Of course being in movies is very exciting, and it's a wonderful thing for an actor to do.

I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.