Debra Messing Quotes

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.

I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just amazing to get to work on your art on a daily basis and do what you love.

To me, success has already happened. I get to make records and live doing that. Success is that.

I'd always dreamed of being an actor and going out to Los Angeles or New York and being paid to do what you love, and then I went and did that, and it wasn't what I expected.

I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'

When you're lucky enough to pay your bills through acting, staying healthy and fit is part of the job.

I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.

Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.