Wentworth Miller Quotes

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

After seeing my performance in director T.V. Chandran's 'Aadum Koothu,' Cheran was impressed and immediately cast me in 'Maya Kannadi.'

When I was nine years old, I was in a movie called, 'Landlord' with Pearl Bailey, Lou Gossett, and Beau Bridges.

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

I was watching TV one day, and there was this open casting call for extras, and my brother says, 'You wanna try out for this movie?' and I said, 'No, I'm okay.' And then he said, 'Do you wanna be on a DVD?' And I said, 'I wanna be on a DVD!,' so I tried out.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

'Superbad' was my first movie, but I've been acting since I was seven.

I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.

My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.