Patrick Wilson Quotes

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

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

I want to act in films such as 'My Left Foot' and 'A Beautiful Mind.'

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.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

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.

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

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.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.

I can't remember life before I was an actor. In fact, I was an actor before I knew what it was to be an actor.