On-Camera Experience Quotes

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

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.

My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.

My agent knows what I'm looking for. And I'm also looking for a new agent, too, so I'm putting it out there. Again, I'm not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It's all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, 'Stand here and open a rope,' I'm not doing it.

There are some times where being on the shows are great. Sometimes it's hard, when it's just like, 'the show must go on,' and there's a TV show that's being done.

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating at first.

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

I did a lot of TV work for more than 30 years in New York and L.A., but I would get on the stage whenever I could.

It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn't that different from being on 'Monday Night RAW.' It's all stuff that I was prepared for.

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

I'm part of a great job where I get paid to learn. My first brush with the world of showbiz happened when I got selected while I auditioned for 'Dhoom Machao Dhoom' at my college in Delhi.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.

It is very difficult for me to accept the fact that I am acting in front of the camera.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

Have you imagined me acting in a TV drama? I have, when I was young.