It was never my goal to be an actor.
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My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
ERIN CUMMINGS It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
GAVIN DEGRAW It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flatteri...
PAUL GIAMATTI I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!
INDIANA EVANS It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - a...
PAUL GIAMATTI My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
DWAYNE JOHNSON One time, somebody said I look just like Evan Rachel Wood but hotter.
EVAN RACHEL WOOD I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
SAOIRSE RONAN My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and fre...
CHERYL MILLS Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided t...
RAM KAPOOR My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
ADAM DRIVER My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
EDDIE REDMAYNE As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and ...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and t...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD 'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? The...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I don't believe in ghosts.
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this ...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of roman...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn&...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would lo...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
SARA PAXTON I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole ide...
VINCENT GALLO I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.
DAVID SOUL When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voic...
DAVID SUCHET My goal was never to get re-elected.
SCOTT MCCALLUM At first I didn't know what to expect, because Rachel has never won domestically. I believe regardle...
ELAINE YOUNGS I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would ...
DAVID RAKOFF I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this momen...
JOAQUIN PHOENIX I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family...
SURESH RAINA My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.
BRUCE ROBINSON An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.
HARVEY COCKS Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.
DAVID SOUL Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
GERMANY KENT I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor...
RENE AUBERJONOIS My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man,
JOE SIMPSON Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
LANCE REDDICK This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this son...
MAREN MORRIS Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a la...
JENNIFER CARPENTER I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.
JON STEWART I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my...
TROY DONAHUE I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
TAYLOR CALDWELL (After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to ...
KYLE MAYNARD The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my ...
ERIC STONESTREET It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
JOHN FORD And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor...
RENE AUBERJONOIS If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
CHRISTIAN BALE I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
KRISTIN DAVIS My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, ...
PREITY ZINTA I never did anything as an actor that I was extremely proud of.
DAVE MADDEN I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think...
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni...
ELIZA DUSHKU At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.
CHRIS BURKE I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down...
BARRY LEVINSON My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university ...
HUGH DANCY An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
CHRISTIAN BALE I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all abou...
SAM HEUGHAN As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as ...
RANDY WAYNE My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
YAEL STONE I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. ...
PAUL WALKER I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and...
RAM CHARAN My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ...
CHARLIE ROWE My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
FRANCESCA ANNIS When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get br...
JAMES FRANCO To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
SHIA LABEOUF We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn'...
JESSICA ST. CLAIR You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my fee...
IDRIS ELBA My goal was to try and kind of be our generation's Marty McFly. That was what my all-time goal w...
TOM HOLLAND I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was ...
BARKHAD ABDI I never thought about being an actor.
DANNY GLOVER It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the ...
DAN DEACON My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.
NUNO ROQUE I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.
EDWARD HALL I was one of those kids, who...well let's just say that theater really saved my life. It has always ...
CINDY GENZANO Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. ...
DANIEL BREAKER It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
ADAM DRIVER I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win...
DWAYNE JOHNSON My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that mad...
SKYLAR ASTIN I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
CARLA GUGINO The critics said, 'Well, Arnold can't be an administrator, he's an actor. Arnold can't be an environ...
JAY LENO I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going...
ADAN CANTO I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.
PAWAN KALYAN Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm pro...
ELAINE YOUNGS My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is som...
NICOLE KIDMAN I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari ...
CANDICE ACCOLA It was an unstoppable goal.
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BEATRICE WOOD I'm not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
BEATRICE WOOD But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca...
BEATRICE WOOD Sex is energy.
BEATRICE WOOD I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
BEATRICE WOOD And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on...
BEATRICE WOOD First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
BEATRICE WOOD And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artis...
ED WOOD Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now...
ED WOOD Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
ED WOOD He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
ED WOOD This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he ...
ED WOOD