Toks Olagundoye Quotes

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.

I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed up, crazy characters, but I'm happy to do it 'cause someone's got to.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

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.

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".

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

I never not wanted to become an actress.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.