Martin Donovan Quotes

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

I've made one action movie. But nobody saw it, so I guess that doesn't count for most people.

Not many know that I had done a fiction show called 'Kayaamat' for exactly one month. I also did 'Ek Thi Rajkumari,' though I don't think anyone watched the show. That was the plan - I wanted to be on TV, but in such a way that no one watched me.

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

I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

I've done a lot of independent films that not a lot of people have seen.

I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.

So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.

My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.

I had not grown up on theater - in Hughes, Ark., you went to see a movie on Saturday. So my acting heroes were movie stars. It was a natural thing for me to want to get into the movies.

When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

I was so green, and my background was mostly in theater. The only thing I'd done in front of a camera, besides an infomercial and one commercial, was 'Brothers McMullen.'

I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.