Acting Quote by Anonymous

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

— Casey Nicholaw

Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was working in…

— Dorian Missick

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

— Michael C. Hall

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

— Denis Leary

I did so many acting jobs for nothing. I was in a play that opened on Christmas Eve above a police precinct on 54th…

— Bobby Cannavale

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

— Demi Moore

I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn't really sure at that time if I even wanted to be…

— Charles Bronson

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was…

— Kristanna Loken

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

— Christopher Guest

I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for…

— Uzo Aduba

I was doing progressively smaller movies in England, after Harry Potter... to the point where I was doing nine-day shoots for, like, 20p and…

— Robert Pattinson

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

— Ashley Bell