Brent Spiner Quotes

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

I'm going to be an actor.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

I want to be an actor.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I treat Hollywood as my high school.

I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

Nobody in my family is in the show business, and none of my friends were. I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I would love to be on Broadway!

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.