Bryan Fogel Quotes

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.

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 family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

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

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

We weren't a Hollywood family. We were simply a show business family.

When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

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

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.

I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.