Gina Torres Quotes

I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

I learned how to act working in TV.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.

I'd love to do something totally different on TV like a period drama, but if I did go back to soap acting, then it would have to be with 'EastEnders.' I just couldn't go anywhere else.

Yes, I faced camera for the first time for '18th Cross.' It was a great experience for me to be part of a film after working in some television serials.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

I was on 'Home and Away' for about three or four months. I loved it.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.

'EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.