Christine Lahti Quotes

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

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

I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

I got my SAG card doing commercials.

Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

I was 42 when I started to make my living as an actor.

Everywhere in the society, even my extended family, when they got to know that I am going to be an actor, they were very worried because there is a lot of negativity attached to my craft or being a heroine.

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

There were points I wanted to stop acting. We got so busy and didn't get to see our friends a lot, and I was like, 'Wow, I'm kind of over this.' But then we started really having fun on 'The Suite Life.'

I've been an actor since I was 18. So that's my proper job. But I was not a very successful actor, if you consider being able to afford your rent successful. I did lots of old people's tours; reminiscence tours.

Everyone who comes to the entertainment industry wants to be a film actor. Who wants to be a television actor by choice? I want to change the perception of Indian television as being the poor man's medium.