Teri Polo Quotes

I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.

It just clicked that it was the next step for me; choreographing didn't interest me, and opening a studio wasn't a passion for me. I didn't know if I'd be very good at acting, but then my first scene in acting class... I just loved it.

I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I quit. I knew I wanted to go into the theater... I wanted to act.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in was on for five nights and I didn't show up for two of them and nobody noticed. But I stayed because that's where my friends were, and after a while I found myself wanting to inhabit other people's worlds and lives.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I am a musician who started acting.

Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.