Charlie Puth Quotes

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

Before getting into movies, I decided to get modeling or acting assignments in Delhi.

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.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I used to visit one production house every day, and I used to take up auditions even for small roles. Before my debut, I must have auditioned at almost every single production house.

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

I had never imagined that after coming to Mumbai that, as an actor, my dates would be booked in six-eight months in advance.

At 19, I got signed up for commercials, it was easy money.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

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.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.