Francia Raisa Quotes

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

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.

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.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

I can't even tell you how many different shows I would love to guest star on because there's just too many.

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

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

The normal state of an actor is unemployed.

It happens in the West most of the time - the biggest of stars, they audition. That's how it should happen.

There are so many good actors who just keep waiting for good opportunities.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

I came out to Los Angeles for a couple of meetings in the summer of 2005, and I ended up getting a movie called Firehouse Dog for Fox. And I thought, "Oh, man. I'm doing a movie. Maybe I'll work a lot more now. I'm an actor now." Then, for eight, nine months I didn't work after that. After that movie, I began to get some guest star roles, fairly consistently, but because I had been so presumptuous before in thinking that the other jobs would lead to something, I realized: "Just get up. Go to work. Go home. This is your job just like everyone else's job."

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.

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

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.