Beth Riesgraf Quotes

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and auditioned and did very well there. My first gig was playing a skinhead in John Singleton's 'Higher Learning', and I played Glenn Close's son in a TV movie called 'Serving In Silence.'

I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.