Actors Quote by William H. Macy

I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.

— Charley Boorman

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

— Bruce Dern

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

— Casey Nicholaw

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

— Roger Moore

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

— Oliver Platt

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

— Laura Linney

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

— Christopher Guest

I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved…

— Nolan North

I was an actor in New York, dude.

— Chris Claremont

I always wanted to be an actor. My first professional job was at 19, working in New York theater.

— Peter Scolari

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even…

— Stephen Root