Jena Malone Quotes

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.

We weren't a Hollywood family. We were simply a show business family.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.