Ato Essandoh Quotes

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, 'I did not choose acting; acting chose me.' I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

Working with a full Hollywood team has been an awesome learning experience, and I definitely want to pursue acting more.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

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 didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

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