Sophie Kennedy Clark Quotes

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

I would definitely like to continue my career in Hollywood, work hard and do my best.

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.

I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.

I feel like people who come out to Los Angeles hoping to be an actor give up too easily, and/or they don't put in the amount of time that it really does take.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

I may not be smarter, I may not be as well-known, but I know I can outwork any of them.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Before 'New Girl,' I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don't know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be - and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there - to get a show on the air and keep it going.

The last thing you want is to be desperate in Hollywood.

In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.

I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.