African american Quote by Richard Masur

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that…

— Jenna Fischer

Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice…

— Solly Granatstein

There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lurking, because when 'The Office' started, I wasn't…

— Craig Robinson

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where…

— Kenneth Branagh

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or…

— Aaron Tveit

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television?…

— Barry Levinson

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

— Bess Myerson

So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off…

— William Mapother

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I…

— David Cross

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot…

— Dennis Haysbert

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

— Larry Wilmore

I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office.…

— Clifton Collins, Jr