Teresa Wright Quotes

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

I never not wanted to become an actress.

I've always had an itch for acting and a passion for acting, but never really got to dabble into it too much, and now I can say I'm officially an acrtress.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

There was a little part of me that always felt like I was going to be an actress, but I never acted when I was growing up. I was a dancer. That's all I did, all day, all my life. Maybe this was just where I was meant to be, and somehow I ended up here, but it just felt right. As soon as I started acting, it just felt like it was meant to be.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

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

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

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.