Donald Sutherland Quotes

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

I did not choose acting as a career.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.