Stephanie Courtney Quotes

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.

When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from still photography to commercials.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

'Hunger Games' was an awesome job. I never had to learn any lines. I never had to do any ADR.

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.

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 had done a few commercials here and there, but I was never super lucky in commercials.

I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.

Any time you're in front of a camera and have them yell 'Cut, re-shoot the scene,' are you kidding me? That's a huge advantage.

I'm always like this with a new movie role. I always get super-defensive and make noises like a rooster, Maybe that's because I spent so much time as a chorus girl.

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

I'm always looking for work. There are only two states of being an actor, so if I'm not working, I'm looking for employment.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working. I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people. I've spent a lot of years getting to know people in the business, and that really helps. It depends. You can have some pretty terrible auditions.

My first audition was for a Dr. Pepper commercial.

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.