Ashley Thomas Quotes

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

I was a musician and did moderately well at that. I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting. I came to it rather late - later than most. I just really wanted to try my hand, and thankfully, it worked out for the most part.

I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.

I love acting, but I've always prioritized my music.

Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.