Anouska Hempel Quotes

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.'

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.

I was an artist before I got into interiors.

I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

I'd studied acting in New York when I left Pierre - that was the big thing that I did. I worked very hard at it, actually.

Once the second season of 'Haven' rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, 'OK, I'm an actor now. This is what I'm doing. This is my new career.'

I'll never forget the day I went home and told my wife, 'I'll never be a kindergarten teacher.'

Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.

I am looking at acting in a different way now. I always looked at it as equity to build the other things I was doing; now, I consider it a career.

'Khoobsurat' introduced me to this huge, amazing audience so close to my home. In a lot of ways, it has changed my life, but the game keeps changing.

I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.

When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll have to think of something else!

I didn't really get into acting until halfway through college. Once I graduated I pursued it professionally, but it wasn't like I was always an actress.

I am going to branch out to acting and do more modeling.

I have become an employee of art.