Actors Quote by James Lipton

I became a producer because of projects I wanted to pursue and develop as a director or actor.

— Sam Wanamaker

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for…

— Yvette Mimieux

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to…

— Kathryn Hahn

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

— Tom Ellis

I could become a producer because of my film career, the work I did in my 20s.

— Rimi Sen

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was…

— Rana Daggubati

I honestly think if I had made a ton of money as an actor, I wouldn't have done anything else. (Hah!) Then I turned…

— Steven C. Harper

When I started as a filmmaker, I never, ever imagined in a million years that I would be doing television because, at that time,…

— Jeremy Podeswa

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

— Casey Kasem

I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a…

— Sandra Bullock