Break Quote by Laraine Day

M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

— Laraine Day

In those days, I auditioned for everything MGM made while I was under contract. Not for the roles Elizabeth Taylor eventually got, of course.

— Leslie Nielsen

As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them…

— Angela Lansbury

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

— Danny Huston

I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

— Marion Ross

I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the…

— Marion Davies

I wanted corporate experience before I joined films.

— Soha Ali Khan

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff…

— Jacki Weaver

I went from auditioning for roles to being offered films directly.

— Mrunal Thakur

At MGM there was a script cage in the basement where they’d show rushes. And I thought to myself, “How do I get into…

— George Hamilton

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who…

— Tommy Kirk