Acting Desire Quotes

I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

I would love to act, but I seriously do not know anything about it.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a bank. I want to rob a bank in a film. I want to rob a bank in a film but do it with a gun - with a gun, not with a bomb strapped around me.

I'd love to get into one of Tyler Perry's movies - play a little role, have a little character. I don't care. But more than two lines! More than two words!

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

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

I'd love to do something where I played a musician.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

I have always wanted to act.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

I think most actors don't start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to work, whatever manifestation that takes.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

I wanted to be an actress from about the age of five.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I wanted to be an actor from the time I was a kid.

When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this incredible outlet for something I was already doing fairly compulsively anyway, which was putting on hats and costumes and doing funny voices. It was a very natural compulsion for me.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.