I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.
I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.
I'm a ham who wants to be a small part of anything.
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.
When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.
If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.
I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.
I never, ever wanted to be an actor.
I would loved to be called a character actor.
Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'
When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.
There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.
I want to carry a really great role in a great film.
I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one - a Russian spy.
I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
I've always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.
I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.
I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.
I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to see myself on the big screen.
I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!
