Peter Falk Quotes

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

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

I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy.

I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

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

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.

When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn't say it to me, but he told my mom, 'No. I'm not going to allow that. He'll starve to death.' I grew up in a small town in Illinois where being an actor was not something people did.

When I was much younger, I used to practice my Oscar speech in the mirror. I used to beg my parents to be in movies.

I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I think it was because they had such great sports teams, and it was in California, where the actors were. But even though I was talking about being an actor when I was young, I was first going to be a football player. My dream was "I'm going to go to UCLA and be a football player."