Actor's Ambition Quotes

It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name.

I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

Actors are always looking for new territory, and playing an African figure would be really a great symbol for me because of my Senegalese roots. It would make my parents proud, so of course I'd do it.

I want to do challenging roles which will create an interest among the audience.

A star is different, and an actor is different. But there is an actor in every star, and they, too, look for challenging roles to satisfy the actor in them.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.

There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.

I want to do a biopic as an actor. It's a thrill... I would love it if I am able to do a biopic.

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

The only day I will worry is if I stop getting exciting roles. As an actor, I have so much to give. There's a lot of fire and hunger in me to juice every part that I get.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.