Elden Henson Quotes

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

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

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

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.'

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's really good to be a working actor.

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 was so green, and my background was mostly in theater. The only thing I'd done in front of a camera, besides an infomercial and one commercial, was 'Brothers McMullen.'

I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.

I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

I started acting, when I was 15, in commercials and guest roles. I was definitely a working actor, so I was thankful for that. But I never had to work at a store, although I would have liked to.

I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got 'Issaq' through auditioning.

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

My sister pursued acting, and one day, I was like, 'Hey, I want to do acting, too' - this was just in commercials - and then one day, I got an audition for my first movie, 'Smurfs 2,' and I did it.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

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.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

I'm a journeyman actor.