Sidney Poitier Quotes

I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

I've always wanted to become an actress. It's been a lifelong dream, but my family and I didn't know how to do it.

I'd studied acting in New York when I left Pierre - that was the big thing that I did. I worked very hard at it, actually.

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

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

My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

I never got any advice in acting.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.

Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.

When I was little, I didn't even know what acting was. But I was in commercials - baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

If you really want to act, I say get in class. Every kind of class. Put as many tools in that tool belt, because once you get out there, the real world doesn't sugarcoat much!

I'm getting the training I need to progress as an actor. If something comes up and I have to drop, I'll drop.