D. J. Cotrona Quotes

It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

I want to do theater, TV, movies.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

People aren't making as many movies as they used to, so youve got a lot of really big-name actors who are coming in, and they want to do pilots, so things kind of disappear for those of us who kind of have to still get in the room and audition and read for it.

Everyone in L.A. talks about getting an agent or a manager in terms of getting on a sitcom or getting on a movie or doing something else.

After finishing my study in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), I was mentally prepared for the struggle in the film industry.

I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never been around people in show business or from the theater or from movies or anything. And I say that as an encouragement, I don't know some people who want to be doing what I'm doing or be involved in film. You don't have to be from it to get interested and get involved. I certainly wasn't.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

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.

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.

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.

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

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

I've been on sets my whole life.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.