On-Screen Talent Quotes

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

I have to say that we're not actors, at least on 'Mythbusters' or any of the other television projects that we've done.

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that's not always the case, especially when you're working as a children's presenter.

I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

I've done commercials that Sam Mendes directed. Paul Feig directed me in a commercial.

Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.

I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.

When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.