Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

I love acting, of course, and I would still love to keep acting, but I want to try my hands at so many things.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.

I definitely want to do other things outside of acting like producing, directing.

My dream job is definitely to be an actor/director/writer, all three.

There is no comparison between the life of a rock star and an actor. If I could now, I would be a rock star within a blink of an eye. So as far as music is concerned, yeah, I might just go back to it, but don't want to be unfair to it. It requires its proper time and space.

I figure J-Lo does all these movies and all these videos and all this other stuff...I know I can play tennis and act and do photo shoots and model. I know I can do all that.

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children's books and come back to music.

I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest, even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways. It's amazing that I get to create every day, as an actor, or a director, or a writer, and I get to do it in a variety of different genres and worlds and characterizations. I think that's the great privilege of what we do, we get to make believe. I get to go to so many different places, try on different occupations, take on different points of view. That's what's always been sort of alluring.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.