Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me.

When I was growing up in the Isle of Man with ambitions of being a performer, I really wanted to go to see a Broadway show.

My memories of the whirlwind '90s are a blur of work schedules. I was completing my B. Com. degree in 1991 when I took to modelling and acting in TV serials. A year later, I found my foothold in movies.

I don't know how to explain it, but ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to perform.

I believe everyone has their own place in B'town.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

There was a time I'd sing and dance at night clubs, but now I don't do that.

My dream has always been to be in entertainment.

I had an opportunity to move to L.A. back in 1999 and start up a horse racing network of all things. At the time, I was younger and married but didn't have kids; so we thought, Let's just go to L.A. for a while and have fun, and we can always come home. One thing led to another; and once I was out there, I had my eyes opened to this other world and quickly got a home and gardens show and did a game show and then The Bachelor ended up falling into my lap in 2001. And 'the rest is history' as they say.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.