Acting Quote by Paterson Joseph

I think the best thing about a career in the arts is that you can retire if you want and you don't have to…

— Noah Reid

I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career.

— Mena Massoud

I'd always seen that people who had a piece of paper saying they were an actor as people who are definitely sort of above…

— Russell Crowe

“Artistic careers seem to attract a disproportionately high ratio of people with dysfunctional backgrounds, odd upbringings, multiple hang-ups, and exotic emotional deficiencies. In other…

— Graeme Thomson

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make…

— Wade Guyton

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their…

— Anna Deavere Smith

My career would not exist if not for the arts in the schools when I grew up.

— Philip Bailey

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying…

— Chris Carmack

I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want…

— Paloma Faith

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

— Josh Hartnett