Beth Ostrosky Stern Quotes

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

On-camera stuff just hit. I decided to do it to supplement my voice-over career, but I ended up falling in love with it, and it actually hit a lot harder than my voice-over career.

I've never been one to book a ton of commercials.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.

Actors are separated all the time.

My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.