African american Quote by Lee Grant

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in…

— Isaiah Washington

Like any other aspirational actor, I wanted to be a part of films.

— Vikrant Massey

As an actor, I have had an iconic journey and was fortunate enough to have worked with some really wonderful directors.

— Zeenat Aman

There was a choice of being a director who's more familiar with the technicality of doing a movie, like learning about the camera and…

— Lexi Alexander

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead…

— Satyadev Kancharana

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

I wanted to make films before I wanted to be an actor.

— Harris Dickinson

As an actor, I just made the most of the opportunities that came my way and I owe it to my directors for having…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college,…

— Owen Wilson

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names.…

— Debra Dean

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

— Peter Stormare

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of…

— Jason Lee