Thomas Ian Griffith Quotes

I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

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

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

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 think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

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

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.

In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

I was at Elon University in North Carolina for two years pursuing my BFA. And after my sophomore year, I was cast in the Broadway Tour of 'West Side Story.' I just kind of - it always was my favorite show growing up.

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

I don't think I am an action movie star now; I've just done a couple of action movies! I'm just so respectful of the people that have come before me and the hard work they've put in.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

I never really pictured myself as an actress.