Alex Rocco Quotes

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

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

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

What I really want to be is an actor.

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

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.

I'm pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you're a kid and there's a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that's the best reason to be in the industry!