Film Aspirations Quotes

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

All I want is the same opportunities as the filmmakers I grew up admiring. But you know, I've had lots of amazing opportunities to do the movies I wanted to do. If I could write my future, I'd want to keep making character-based films that can make use of my voice as a filmmaker.

At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one day. Action is very cinematic.

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

I loved rom-coms growing up. So, of course I wanted to be in one and be the girl that I had watched up on the screen so many times when I was 13.

Once I wanted to get into films, I took my time about it because when I first got to Bombay, I gave my photos and CDs to all the production houses. But the roles that came my way were the 'typical white girl dancing in the background' kind of roles, which I was not too interested in, or it was advertisements.

I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

There was never a conscious dream to enter films.

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.

I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

I would love, love, love to do a comedy like 'Gentleman's Guide,' something farcical and fast-paced, but I also want to do something that hasn't been written yet: the story of Sidney Poitier. A lot of people tell me that I look like him.

I want to star in an action-comedy, like 'The Rock' or 'Con Air.' Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.

I want to be in a Tim Burton movie so bad.