Rachel True Quotes

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.

I started when I was 21, and it was always about getting the next job - like most actors, that's all it's ever been for me.

I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

I definitely want to do movies and stuff.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.