Rob Riggle Quotes

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

I was always toying with the idea of acting.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

I've always felt like I've been in good shows.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

It just clicked that it was the next step for me; choreographing didn't interest me, and opening a studio wasn't a passion for me. I didn't know if I'd be very good at acting, but then my first scene in acting class... I just loved it.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.