Trini Lopez Quotes

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

All I ever wanted was a successful career as an actress.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

I feel like starring in a TV show is such a fun thing.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

There are three stages of an actor's career: Young, Old, and 'You look good!'