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 - and then you move to Paris.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.
Just because I live in L.A .and I live in Hollywood doesn't mean I have to have a Hollywood life.
Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.
Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.
It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.
I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.
I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.
I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!