When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to…

At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor. She said,…

— Khleo

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they…

— Denzel Washington

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always…

— Powers Boothe

There is something about the vocal quality of the actors who can really do it. Jim Burrows, the great sitcom director who directed Will…

— Tim Matheson

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to…

— Anonymous

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most…

— Anonymous

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

— Anonymous

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work…

— Mariam Naficy

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in.…

— John Gimlette

“A good actor,' said Sunay in a light theatrical tone, 'is a man who represents the sediment, the unexplored and unexplained powers that have…

— Orhan Pamuk

I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum,…

— Darren Criss

The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how…

— Michele Lee

An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but…

— Colin Farrell

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

— Ted Levine

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda…

— Drake Bell