Fred Gwynne Quotes

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I told everyone that acting's for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

I thought that I'd never be able to work in films or TV. Another girl would be cutting her nose to be an actress. I was always very sure about myself.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

I never thought about being an actor.

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

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

What I really want to be is an actor.

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

I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.