Greta Gerwig Quotes

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

I remember when I first came to Los Angeles being staggered by the range of roles open to me. These were leading parts in shiny new projects, and what always excited me was knowing there was a possibility that I could actually get these parts. I always had the impression that I had a chance.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, 'How would you like to be a horrible actor?' Then you say, 'All right, that sounds good. I'll do that.'

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

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's a long struggle being an actor; I don't know if I'd ever recommend it to anybody!

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.

I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

Millions of people come every day to Mumbai to fulfill their acting dreams. Being one of them is always tough.

I really love being in 'Game of Thrones,' but I don't know if it's my big break.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.