Mahira Khan Quotes

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

I definitely want to do movies and stuff.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

Through the auditions and the process of 'Sonali Cable,' I realised that I want to be an actor.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

I had no dream of being a movie star.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

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

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

I've done a lot of movies before 'Entourage,' and I hope to always have my movie career going. Maybe I could take on another TV show, too.

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

It's so odd because I don't even know if I'm cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That's one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I'd love to work with the Coen brothers.

When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.