Vin Diesel Quotes

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage, do you want to be in film, do you want to be a comic actor? Do you just want to make it for the money and capitalize on your look and do commercials and soaps?'

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

The people on programmes like 'Made in Chelsea' just want to be celebrities. It's so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I'm striving for longevity in my career.

I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me.

Genuinely my big thing and the reason I'm in 'The Miser' is because I always ask myself one simple question when I'm offered anything: Will it get me nearer to being 'Doctor Who' or further away?

I hadn't grown up thinking that I have to be this big actress in Bollywood.

Bollywood was never really the aim, actually. I mean, sure, you could argue that I could have done more films there; for sure, I could have.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

I can never remember a time when I didn't want to be an actress, to be honest. And so, all through high school, I knew that I was gonna go to college in Los Angeles. I just didn't know where. And I knew that I was gonna try to get my theater degree.

I have been in Los Angeles for a long time, and I have wanted to be a series lead for a long time. It's literally on my bucket list.

I never went to school wanting to play cute characters or girly characters.

I think acting is my destiny. I did my first film when I was just eight. However, I never took that role seriously.

I never saw myself as an actor. I neither had the looks nor the backing required to be an actor.