Ed Asner Quotes

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I always wanted to act, but never thought of it as something serious to do.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience. If I had to choose, it would be theater and doing the occasional movie once in a while, and spending time doing nothing.

I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a while, people go and pick their actors and move to Hollywood. It seemed like such a distant idea. But then, as I started growing up, I'm like, 'Oh, this is an occupation.'

I think that all actors just want to continue acting, so if you get the opportunity to go out and do something again, you feel very lucky.

Once the second season of 'Haven' rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, 'OK, I'm an actor now. This is what I'm doing. This is my new career.'

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

I never saw myself as an actor. I neither had the looks nor the backing required to be an actor.

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?

It was never a plan to be an actor.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

When you're lucky enough to pay your bills through acting, staying healthy and fit is part of the job.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

I'd like to be a steadily working actor and to do as many things as possible. I'm really enjoying the life.

It's really good to be a working actor.

I didn't decide to be a character actress.

Most young American actors feel like teenagers.

I was an actor who happened to be a kid.