Charlie Korsmo Quotes

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.

I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

There's a lot to be said for women who want to focus primarily on acting. Other women, on the other hand, aspire to combine their work in acting with other ventures in fashion, business, directing, writing, producing, etc. It's a very personal decision.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

There is life after acting.

When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

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.

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.