Hattie McDaniel Quotes

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

From baby time to now, I wanted to be a Disney princess, and then I wanted to be a singer or an actress.

From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.

I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10 - 11 years old.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do. My wife too. She's a ballet dancer, and she's known what she wanted to do since she was 5. My mother used to tell this story about how our TV set had been taken to be repaired, and back then, they took the set out of the console. So there was this empty console with an empty TV screen in it, and I would climb inside and be like, "I'm on TV!"

I told my parents when I was three that I wanted to be in movies. I don't know what I saw at three years old that would make me decide that's a job and I want to have that job. But I was very confident, very sure that's what I wanted to do. I didn't do anything about it. I didn't prove it to myself or anything. I just knew.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.