Toni Trucks Quotes

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

I wanted a Broadway credit, but 'Crazy Ex' came along, and it blessed me.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

I took a break from doing music to concentrate on acting.

I always thought Broadway's the goal, and then I moved out to L.A. with 'Wicked' and started doing guest-star spots and little recurring things, and I was like, 'Well, this is pretty great; I'm kind of digging this.'

I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

I started as a director very young and fell into acting.

I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.

I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

When I was younger, I was an avid science girl. I was all about, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even when I graduated, I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even though I did acting and I was in plays and drama clubs in high school and college, I still didn't think I was going to take it on as a career.

I was focused on either being a social worker or physiotherapist. That was the direction I was going until I met a girl who wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be close to the girl, so I followed her into an audition.