Actor's Journey Quotes

I never planned to become an actor.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

I had always heard that theatre is for 'serious' actors but after actually having rehearsed day in and day out, I realize how challenging it is.

I didn't intend to become an actor.

I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing.

On 'Nip/Tuck,' I was a Nazi, so basically for, like, six months. I went into this place where I was wearing a lot of black. Everyone has a dark side, and I can channel that.

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

Finally, I was called for "The Office" and I was really lucky, because a lot of the shows that I went out for I would work my way up from, like, an audition with the casting director to the director to the producers to the studio, I'd go through seven auditions, and then they'd give the role to a famous actress.

I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky.

I had to take false steps and go through hard times to come out to where I am now. I can't imagine living without acting. It's not easy, and I don't disrespect anyone who steps out of it after a certain point. Having a family and a house is cool. It's not a betrayal. But if you're going to be an actor, it has to be more than a passing interest.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your backstory, it's part of what you are, it's what you carry with you every day.

After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.

I was an actor who happened to be a kid.

I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV.

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

Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I just wanted to be an action hero! Then I grew up, and my interests were different.