Antje Traue Quotes

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles offered to actors that hadn't done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating.

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.