Kelly Macdonald Quotes

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

I hope to be acting until I am 90.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting. Modeling comes up by default, and I love it - of course I think that it's great - but I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't think it was possible.

I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.

Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

I guess I'd like to do a straight-up drama someday down the line. But I just want to keep working.