Selena Gomez Quotes

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

The people at Utrecht know that I'm always looking to improve myself and that I want to get the maximum out of my career.

I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.

I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff. What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition.

I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don't know if I can. I don't think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It's been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it.

I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.

I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun.

I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And again, I'm not going, "I've got to become a dramatic actor now." I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different.

I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.

An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.

Of course any actor is going to be happy to be nominated for an Oscar - absolutely - but I don't really think of it in that way. I've never really thought of my job in that way, because that's just a lot of pressure to be working towards one goal. I'm much more interested in finding roles that make me feel happy about going to work every day.