Kassie DePaiva Quotes

I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.

I've been an actor for 30 years. I'm not going to run from a great theater production to do two days on an HBO series or something.

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.

If anything, I would say the movies I've done have been very low paid. TV work and voice-overs have been more lucrative.

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

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 always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off.

There are a lot of options when it comes between music and acting. For me, because I'm so passionate about my music career, you have to be extremely passionate when you have opportunities like films and real money actually coming to you compared to with music.

I've been offered a few movies lately, but I don't want to do a movie just for the sake of saying, 'Oh, boy! There's popcorn involved in this.'

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.

After having acted in films down south, I always wanted to work on the small screen but couldn't say yes to everything that was being offered to me.

I am not one of those actors who will abandon my flagship serial, my main claim to fame, just because I've done a hit movie.

It's funny because TV wasn't something that I wanted to do. I wanted to do movies. I'd said a lot of no's to a lot of shows previously because I couldn't fathom being on a show for such a long time and only doing one thing.

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

Bollywood was never really the aim, actually. I mean, sure, you could argue that I could have done more films there; for sure, I could have.

Nobody ever said, "Well if you want to be in movies, you should go to L.A." Everybody else was going to New York. So I went to New York with them. And then I was like, "How am I supposed to get a movie?"

What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.