Mara Wilson Quotes

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

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

I'm going to become a real professional actress.

I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously.

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.

When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I watched those things, I felt like it was such a good escape. It wasn't even that I needed an escape, but I wanted to be an actor so I could give that feeling to someone else.

Well, my brother started acting before I did.

My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

As a kid and even to this day, I want to be an actor when I'm done playing. I work on music, too.

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other parts which somehow - I think they say they 'pop' - people notice that you're in and you become an actor from the movies and people take you in a whole different way. Whether or not I can keep that ball rolling is another matter.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

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

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I've always had an itch for acting and a passion for acting, but never really got to dabble into it too much, and now I can say I'm officially an acrtress.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.