Acting Quote by Ben Stiller

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first…

— Paul Haggis

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

— Maria Semple

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

— Tom Ellis

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

— Stephanie Rothman

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

— Shirley Knight

I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never…

— Sarita Choudhury

The best thing that happened from that situation when I failed was the fact that I failed and I failed because I was trying…

— Jerry Weintraub

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

— Brady Corbet

I think if I hadn't ended up on TV, I'd probably have gone into a career in social media management or maybe digital marketing…

— Charlotte Crosby

I was a struggling actor all my life.

— Soni Razdan

When I started my TV career, I was totally jobless.

— Sudha Chandran

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

— Lee Child