Ian Harding Quotes

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

It was always my goal to be a working actor.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.

When you're an actor, it's really great to be busy - that's what we all want!

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.