Greta Gerwig Quotes

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.

Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out.

Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'

I never made it on 'Castle.' I tried a few times, so I don't know, but it never worked out.

I've always acted, it's my passion and belief system.

I can be rather obsessive - especially when it comes to breaking through to the next level as an actor.

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

Let's face it: I was never a very good actress.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

I know, when people are considering me for jobs, sometimes it's, 'Well, you're in a comic-book movie.' And I'm, like, 'But I'm killing myself to try to do the best I can!'

I do not regret having done 'Game of Thrones,' but I have nothing to say. I understood neither the series nor its success when I was attending. The experience was very strange; it passed under my nose.

'Baywatch' was one of those shows that you auditioned for all the time as a young girl. I auditioned once to play a blind girl and didn't get it. I was constantly auditioning for it.

By the time I got 'Suits,' I thought my time in Hollywood was coming to an end.

If 'Scandal' were to run for the rest of my career and prevent me from doing anything else, I would sign that contract this moment.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I was getting to the point where I said to my wife, 'I don't think I'll ever be in New York in a play again.'

I would have loved to have been on 'The Walking Dead' longer, but it didn't happen.

'Law & Order' is a dream come true. I grew up watching it! I always wanted to portray a character on the show because it's always so riveting.

At first, when I received the script for the 'Archie' show, I was immediately turned off.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.