Marques Houston Quotes

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

At the end of the day, I want to do film, and I want to do TV, but I grew up on stage, and I love music.

I moved out to L.A. to pursue entertainment beyond social media. Because I could have made Vines from Ohio.

I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out, I'd love to produce or direct or write. I just want to stay in this business, definitely. That would be my number one thing. I always want to be an actress.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

I took a break from doing music to concentrate on acting.

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

I feel like music and acting are so much my love, and they're so much equal in my eyes. I couldn't really choose between the two.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

There will be a time very shortly that I just might not be in front of the camera at all, and I might just be behind the scenes. I love doing television, though. I don't necessarily love being in front of the camera.