Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

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

Superstore' is, like, my fifth acting job.

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

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.

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles.

I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

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.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky.

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

It's really good to be a working actor.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through 'Four Weddings', I got into doing lead parts, it's a completely different thing.

I started acting, when I was 15, in commercials and guest roles. I was definitely a working actor, so I was thankful for that. But I never had to work at a store, although I would have liked to.