Professional Acting Career Quotes

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I don't know why Kunal Kohli thought of me for 'Phir Se.' But he did. I got the role without any effort.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

I've basically guest-starred on every show that you can imagine. I am pretty used to being the new kid in school.

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I got a bigger role. Then, in 7th grade, I played Smike in 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and the casting director saw me and asked me to audition for a movie. That movie led to me getting 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

I am really blessed and fortunate to be on 'NCIS.' I really enjoy it, and I really enjoy the cast and all my friends that I have on set. With that said, I grew up doing theater and went to University of Colorado in Boulder and absolutely fell in love with theater.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I've never been one to book a ton of commercials.

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.