Jamie Dornan Quotes

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

It's a good thing to get a break into the glamour industry.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.