Thomas Horn Quotes

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

I wanted to be a part of the first 'Twilight' movie, and unfortunately, it didn't work out so great. So when they came back and were like, 'Do you want to come in for a part for the second movie,' I was like, 'Absolutely.'

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.

I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.