Olivia DeJonge Quotes

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

Understand that I had no concept of what being an actor was like when I was a kid - but I wanted to be an actor. Dressing up and being other people seemed like so much fun, but I didn't know what was involved.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

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 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.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

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'm just an actor, that's nothing special.

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

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I've acted since I was 5 years old, so that's still something I want to do.

I can't think of anything more exciting than trying to be an actor.

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

I just had this moment where I was sitting at my desk, and I realized what it was that I'd been wanting to do since I was a little girl - and that was act.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.