Paul Newman Quotes

I never not wanted to become an actress.

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

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

I had no intention of being an actor, ever.

I never wanted to be an actress. Acting wasn't in my mind. It wasn't in my calculations.

Down South, I never had to audition. They would call me up and give me a role.

I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

I never thought I'd be an actor.

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

Once I was in L.A., I realized anyone could act. Why not give it a shot? I started going to a ton of acting classes, and I found I had a real passion for it, probably the biggest passion I've ever had in my whole life.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.

Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.