Ashley Madekwe Quotes

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

I had no intention of being an actor, ever.

I was the only one in my family who was absolutely focused on acting since I was a kid.

I kind of fell into acting.

I always knew I wanted to go into acting. So I dropped out of the modelling circuit and started taking acting and dance lessons.

Acting is something that I've always wanted to do and been interested in.

Acting is definitely my main focus.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

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 had the acting bug from a very early age.

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.

I don't really view myself as an actor.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

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

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.