Garry Marshall Quotes

I've been doing this journey in acting and singing since I was six years old, and I definitely think this will take me to the next level - in movies.

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

I want to be an actor.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out, I'd love to produce or direct or write. I just want to stay in this business, definitely. That would be my number one thing. I always want to be an actress.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress.

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.