Christina Milian Quotes

I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it.

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

Once 'Uyir' created a controversy, I had several offers coming my way with prominence to my character. However, I avoided them purposefully.

I've done shows where I was the lead, but maybe it wasn't quite right - I took them because I wanted to move my career on.

A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.

I don't look for roles, for they come to me. Mind you, it's not like I'm sitting in the middle of the floor with thousands of scripts around me. When work comes up, it's good. I love it. Work doesn't feel like work.

I've been offered a few movies lately, but I don't want to do a movie just for the sake of saying, 'Oh, boy! There's popcorn involved in this.'

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.