Joshua Malina Quotes

Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

People like scandals.

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

I love my 'Walking Dead' family. This is the best job I ever had.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

I'd never done anything as high profile or professional as 'Skins', so 'Skins' is where I've started.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

When I got a part in 'All American Girl,' in 1994, I remember thinking, 'Now I have a series, I'm not going to need to do standup,' but every night I'd go out afterward and get onstage somewhere.

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?'

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.