Holly Hunter Quotes

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.

I went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.'

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

I would love to do films. It's just the way things happened for me - I ended up doing a lot of TV.

Gossip Girl' was a great opportunity, but it would be misleading to think that anyone on that show doesn't have anything more to offer.

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

When you perform in your first film, it adds a lot to your career graph. The journey becomes easy.

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.

I wasn't featured in NXT. I never had a TakeOver match. I never held a title. I wasn't a featured athlete. I knew, going in to SmackDown Live, I had to kick down the door and take every opportunity for what it was, and sometimes in WWE - and in life - those opportunities don't come back.

I got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.

'Vikram Vedha' is special because it has taken me to the next level in my career.

Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I am thankful to God for that.

My success on the road is predicated on my success in Hollywood.

My first film, 'Ishaqzaade,' did well, and I got four damn good films because of it.

I've been blessed to get the kind of films I have done.

I did two episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' and it was enough to have time to get in there and really get the meat of it, but also then move on and take that experience and bring it into the next one. It was a great stepping stone.

At the age of 16, I ran from my house, did odd jobs till l landed work on television and then in film industry. My first job was at an STD booth in Delhi. Then I came to Mumbai, where I distributed DVDs, and that is when I got my first TV show offer, 'Left Right Left.' I have never planned things in my career.

I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that's gone on as long as 'The Closer' has. You really don't get to do that in this profession.