Jimmy Cliff Quotes

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

Before singing, I was acting. I was always more into acting than singing. It was the first thing I always wanted to do.

A part of me always wanted to be an actor.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

I grew up on sets so I've always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

I always liked acting, but it was not that I was dying to become an actress. It just happened, and I am enjoying it.

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

I started quite late. I didn't know acting was a job.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do I want to work hard at doing something musical?' Acting won out, but I do really enjoy those moments where I get to just belt something out.