Keeley Hawes Quotes

I hope to be acting until I am 90.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

Being an actor has always been my dream.

I'd love to do a drama.

I'd love to do more TV, but I'd love to get into more feature films. I'd also love to go back to the stage when the time and opportunity is right. I haven't gotten to do a lot of that here in L.A., but my favorite thing to do is live theatre. I'd love to actually have a career where you can kind of move in and out of all of those mediums.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

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

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

I always want to be an actress.