Nia Long Quotes

It takes a long time to get a film made.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.

For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

I would love to do a movie.

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.