Rose McIver Quotes

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

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

I don't think I am really awesome. I think I have basic qualification to be an actor.

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

I don't consider myself a good actor.

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.

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