Saqib Saleem Quotes

I didn't intend to become an actor.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I never really pictured myself as an actress.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

I had no intention of being an actor.

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.

I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.

I never planned to become an actor.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

I'm a journeyman actor.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

For me, acting was something I fell into.

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

People really don't understand what actors do.