Michael Eklund Quotes

When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.

I keep fooling people into giving me jobs, and now I'm on Broadway. It's always something I've wanted to be a part of, and I can't believe that this is the experience I'm having.

I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

I've never landed in a series that I could have dreamt in my life. That's why, when people say, 'Well what are roles you're dying to play?' I say, I don't even have such a list, because everything that's ever been great that I had a shot at came completely out of the blue. I could not have predicted it.

I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.

My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!