Michael Gough Quotes

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

It was always my goal to be a working actor.

As an actor, I belong to a strange slot, where you may have all sorts of roles in your kitty.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I've acted since I was 5 years old, so that's still something I want to do.

I want to be always actor.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

I don't think I am an actor, because I haven't studied to be an actress.

I have always wanted to be an actor. I was just five when I started acting.