Zachary Levi Quotes

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I got serious about performing, and I got serious about acting. It's very funny; singing has always been a very separate thing for me - until I went to college. I just studied musical theater because I was like, 'That means I can study voice and acting in the same major, and I won't have to double major.' Now I do musicals for a living.

I thought there would be a lot of, you know, transferable skills, from acting and comedy, but there weren't that many!

Through the auditions and the process of 'Sonali Cable,' I realised that I want to be an actor.

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.