Eiza Gonzalez Quotes

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

I definitely caught acting bug.

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

I haven't really had that many opportunities to play 'lead' so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any 'sci-fi' projects and thought it might be fun.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started 'Homeland'.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

My family was always supportive when I decided that I wanted to pursue this thing called acting.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy.

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

I'm a working actress.

I want to show audiences I can act.