Actor Quote by Nicole Ari Parker

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

— Casey Nicholaw

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 have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some…

— Pedro Pascal

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and…

— Clark Gregg

I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor.…

— Brent Spiner

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 felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

— Emily Procter

Some people suggested that I should try something else. It was a lot of things, but nothing really stood out for me. Nothing felt…

— Claudia Kim

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

— June Squibb

I was an actor in New York, dude.

— Chris Claremont

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

— Patrick Macnee

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

— Pernell Roberts