Susan Olsen Quotes

I told everyone that acting's for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

I'm never going to be an improv comedian.

Sometimes I feel like I don't dream big enough.

The truth is, I should have never done teaching. I did teaching because I didn't have the bottle to have a go at comedy. Whether there's any gain to comedy is not for me to say. But certainly it was no loss to teaching.

Before Hollywood happened to me, I just took a break to think about whether I belong in the industry or whether I should be listening to whatever people were telling me.

When I first started acting, I was genuinely questioning whether or not I should be doing this.