Sofia Vergara Quotes

For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.

I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

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

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.