Megan Mullally Quotes

I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.

I didn't want to teach. I wanted to act. It was quite a long and difficult road to get there but very thrilling when I did.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

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.

Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.

I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

My goal is to live out my dreams, to have a long NBA career, win championships and provide for them. My mom works two jobs. She does security and event staffing. My sister is a waitress. Anytime I'm down or don't want to work out, I remember our situation and what I've got to keep doing.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

I was actually really sick of being a broke actress with a toddler, so I wrote a script.

Acting was always there in my mind, but I never tried too hard to take it up. I had to pay my bills, so I did whatever came my way. Music happened first, so I took it up quite passionately.

It was a miracle that I became an actress. I survived because of hard work and perseverance.

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.

I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and cons. It was actually my mom who encouraged me to go to acting school because I was really afraid to put all my eggs in that basket.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

I moved to California in 2011 to be a writer. A family friend told me to take acting classes so I could do commercials and actually make a little money.