Actor Quote by Manny Jacinto

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

— Elizabeth Olsen

Totally, if I wasn't trying to be an actor, I would leave L.A. because you can't really have that life here. There's a lot…

— Rumer Willis

I don't want to try to be a film star and move to L.A. I'd be quite happy just to keep on working.

— Joanna Page

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career -…

— Alex Pettyfer

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

— Nia Vardalos

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become…

— Chadwick Boseman

I thought, I don't want to move to L.A., because I'm kind of an atypical actor. I think it's going to be hard for…

— Lily Gladstone

I think, in Australia, it's kind of a crazy thing to say, 'I want to be an actor.' People look at you weirdly. And…

— Danielle Macdonald

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds…

— Linda Cardellini

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get…

— Carrie Fisher

I actually moved to L.A. in 2005, and I wanted to be an actress.

— Denise Bidot

Nobody aspired to be an actor where I came from and I didn't think I would get in anywhere.

— Douglas Henshall