Artistic Ambitions Quotes

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts. I had no idea that it was going to be acting in movies.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'

When I'm 19, I'll still be living with my mom, but I'm going to be doing music and acting. I can picture it really vividly.

I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then, when I graduated, that didn't happen immediately. I didn't suddenly get solo shows in Chelsea, and I realized that is actually kind of difficult to break into.

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.

When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,' I was braced for, 'That's not gonna happen.' But I didn't get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad's experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside.

I didn't aspire to be on Broadway.

I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.