Kelly Macdonald Quotes

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

When I left school I was meant to do my law degree but I was lucky to fall into something I love.

I never planned to be an actress.

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

Acting was never on agenda.

I was not thinking about getting into acting in any way.

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

When I had signed my first film, I had not even told my family about it.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

I started working when I was 17. After working for seven-eight years, I informed my parents about my acting decision.

A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

A teacher asked me if I'd audition for a play, and I ended up playing the pirate Red Dog in a production of 'Treasure Island.' And that's where it started, and I really felt part of something special, but I still didn't think about it as something I wanted to do. I was just having fun.

I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.

Acting was always in the back of my head.

Unfortunately, my dancing skills never came to the fore, as I got involved in acting on television, where an actor doesn't get too many opportunities to dance.

In my late teens and early 20s, I worked hard on my roles, but, to be honest, I didn't feel any special commitment to acting.

One thing just led to another, and today, here I am, acting in a daily soap, and I am just loving it.