Lee Pace Quotes

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

At 19, I got signed up for commercials, it was easy money.

It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials.

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I'd get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

When you're younger, there aren't very many kid actors. It's a lot easier to get jobs.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.