Chandler Riggs Quotes

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

Never, never in my life did I have it in my mind to become an actress or be part of a film.

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I'd love to get into one of Tyler Perry's movies - play a little role, have a little character. I don't care. But more than two lines! More than two words!

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

I had not grown up on theater - in Hughes, Ark., you went to see a movie on Saturday. So my acting heroes were movie stars. It was a natural thing for me to want to get into the movies.

I started doing movies when I was 14.

Though I love cinema, I had never thought of becoming an actress.

My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to Cannes. I then did 'Prague,' which was a very niche film.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.