Tim Meadows Quotes

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

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

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

Could you ever call me a 'leading man?' Not really. It's not that I don't want leading man roles, but there's only so many, and they want Tom Hanks, not me.

I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.

Nick was cast first in both 'Smashed' and 'Kings.'

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.

I used to visit one production house every day, and I used to take up auditions even for small roles. Before my debut, I must have auditioned at almost every single production house.

Once I won the roles in 'Spender' and 'First Knight' it was much easier for everyone, me included, to get their heads around the idea of me being an actor.

I do good work in Pakistan. I am an A-lister actor. So, even in Bollywood I want to work with an A-lister.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

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.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.