Actor Aspiration Quotes

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

I want portray a Bond villain. I think I'd give Bond a great run as the villain.

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

I would love to play the President of the United States. I have been told we resemble each other, and it would be a challenge I would be up for. Obama is from the south side of Chitown, and so am I... I'm just saying, but be on the lookout.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.

I want to be known as the Daniel Day-Lewis of TV dads.

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

I wish that I had been in 'School of Rock' because, when I was younger, that movie was the movie. It really made me want to be an actor - that's so cheesy. But I remember seeing it when I was little and loving it so much, being like, 'I wish that I was in that.'

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Ever since I became an actor, I wanted my film to release on Eid.

I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

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