Angela Bowie Quotes

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

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 want to write, act, and direct!

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.

Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

I've acted just to get to directing.

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

I just need good scripts, good films, and I am glad I am doing them.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

When I was a musician, I had no intention of taking up acting.

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.

I came to Mumbai for my internship in advertising in an ad agency. Back then, a senior from my college who was working for Balaji asked whether I wanted to act. I agreed, and I didn't even know when it became my passion and my hobby.

I started dancing at age three and then got involved in musical theatre and acting around age seven. I think I've probably known since then that I want to be a professional actor.