Acting Quote by Laurie Metcalf

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

— Gong Yoo

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing…

— Jenna Fischer

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a…

— Ed Asner

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

— Denis Leary

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

— Sigourney Weaver

I was an acting major.

— Tommy Dorfman

I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.

— Daveed Diggs

The idea was to become an actor. Then I found I really didn't like acting.

— Joe Lycett

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

— Sam Neill

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it…

— Campbell Scott