Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.

If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.

Let me tell you one thing: there is no more cutthroat place to be than an independent film. Disney is a cakewalk after that - that is no lie.

Even if you are an established actor's son or daughter, you need to work hard.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

I can't really speak to the other parts of the economy, but what I think is very true of the tech world is that it's easy for talented people - whatever their gender, age, or race - to rise up and succeed.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.