Shenaz Treasury Quotes

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression.

Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

Acting is what I'd always wanted to do; hosting 'The Soup' was more because of Greg Kinnear.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

The world that I would want to get into would be acting. In the beginning, I would do stuff as myself if I had the opportunity to host events - host, like, a talk show. Something like that, I think, would be super amazing.

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.

I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

When I was in MTV, I wasn't really looking out to do films.

When I was a VJ, people told me I will be an actor. I used to laugh.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

My dream really is just to keep working in film and in theatre.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

It's been a pretty amazing experience, getting to go from 'Bosch' to 'The Vampire Diaries' back-to-back, with a little 'Castle' in between.

Television was almost a natural for me.

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I made that decision around the time of 'Halloween,' whether I wanted to continue trying to be a singer and rock and roll player or get into movies.