Broadway Quote by Ethel Merman

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

— Seth Rogen

I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor.

— Abhay Deol

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

— Joan Allen

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was…

— Alan Rickman

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a…

— Stanley Donen

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

— Morris Chestnut

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas

To become an actress was not something I had planned, it just came about through a music video. I just went with that flow.

— Nazriya Nazim

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

— Alexander Hanson

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

— Arlene Dahl

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

— Peter Hedges

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

— Henry Czerny