Julie Benz Quotes

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

In fact, I just play a glamour doll in 'Vijayendra Varma,' for the first time in my career.

The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.

I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.

I don't have to fear that if I do more comedy I'm not going to get to do everything I want. I'll get to do my 'Yentl.'

I think 'Nick and Norah' was a huge deal for me. It was my first foray into the studio world, and that character was such a gift.

I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming a writer and producer and doing animation.

I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.

It is a nice feeling when the audience reaches out to me by my character names from the films that I have done.

My first films, 'Tamizhan' and 'Whistle,' showcased me in a different light - as an urbane composer.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is this idea about authenticity as a rapper, in the fact that you rap things that are yours. That's not what doing a play is. You're interpreting somebody else's words.

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.