Parineeti Chopra Quotes

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

It's really good to be a working actor.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.

It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.'' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.