Daniela Ruah Quotes

Most of the people I admire as actors didn't make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.

I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

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

I appreciate everything. I built my career from very humble beginnings. Every job I've had, every next rung on the ladder, I appreciate because I know where it started - I started doing Pac-Man vitamin commercials.

When you perform in your first film, it adds a lot to your career graph. The journey becomes easy.

At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people I respect and admire. And that will come in its time. In the meantime, "Pay attention to your work. Get better at what you do." That's my job.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

I got into modeling first, then acting came along pretty soon, and I landed my first role in a Korean drama without education, without any acting experience whatsoever.

I never thought I would do something in Hollywood after I started with a series in the West, which was a small stint.

It started with Dragon Gate USA, where I started as a guy on the pre-show and wasn't promised anything. I kept coming and doing what I do and ended up on the main show and eventually won their championship.

Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.

I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities.

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

In 1983 I was still playing small to middling parts.

When I made it to the pros I wanted to be a guy who could stay in the league, be OK, do whatever I had to do to make some money and do what I do. As the years started coming, I started getting better.

I was only 18 years old when I started acting.

I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.

I ended up going to America for an acting workshop, and everything sort of kicked off from there.

I had to put in my time all through my 20s. Then I came to CNN in 2008 as a freelancer with no guarantees.

The platform of 'Kyunki' is irreplaceable in my life. This is where I began my journey as an actor.