Angie Harmon Quotes

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

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.

When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

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

'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I actually never wanted to be a VJ. Never. It just so happened that I became a VJ, and I was actually kind of like, 'I don't want to be a VJ. I want to be in the movies.' So yeah, I always wanted to be an actor.

Maybe I will end up in the movies.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

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 wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that series ended, I thought that I would be going on more auditions and booking more jobs, but everything just came to a screeching halt.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.