Kathleen Turner Quotes

When I was doing engineering, one day I thought that I want to be an actor, and apart from acting, I want to produce also.

I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?

I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.

I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation.

I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.

I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting.

I was going to school with a girl who was an actor. And I was, like, 'No, I want to be an actor.'

I had a chance to do acting again, and, I don't know, this has always been my plan of what I wanted to do.

I've never hidden the fact I'm ambitious at some point.

I always knew I wanted to act, but I never knew when and what would be the right time.

As much as I love my daughters, I wasn't happy with only being a stay-at-home-dad, and my wife encouraged me to try, to really try, at being a writer. More than anything, I didn't want to let her down.

I started when I was four because I had asked my parents, I begged them, 'Can I do acting? I really want to do this!' and they let me do it, so that's pretty much how I got started.

I honestly didn't know that I wanted to act until I was probably 12.

I would like to give acting a go. I studied it for a long time; I just want to make sure when I do it I am able to put in as much effort as I do to modeling.