I always wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Dan Stevens
I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
‐‐ Bryan Batt
I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
‐‐ Rooney Mara
I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
‐‐ Dane DeHaan
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
‐‐ Nicholas Brendon
I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
‐‐ Lance Henriksen
I always wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be John Wayne.
‐‐ Bill Engvall
I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.
‐‐ Tim Matheson
I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.
‐‐ DJ Qualls
I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
‐‐ Joshua Malina
I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I was just born as quite a healthy specimen!
‐‐ Dave Legeno
I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
‐‐ Frances Bay
I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.
‐‐ Reba McEntire
I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.
‐‐ AnnaLynne McCord
I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
‐‐ Tahyna Tozzi
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
‐‐ Andy Cohen
I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.
‐‐ Jessie J
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
‐‐ Julie Mehretu
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
‐‐ Janis Joplin
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
‐‐ Patti Smith
I always wanted to be an astronaut.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid
I always wanted to be an athlete. Then when I realized that I can't run very fast, jump very high, or catch anything, I thought, 'Maybe if this doesn't work out, I can be an actor.'
‐‐ Geoff Stults
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
‐‐ Michael Palin
I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.
‐‐ Christian McKay
I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada
I always wanted to be fashionable.
‐‐ John Malkovich
I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.
‐‐ John C. McGinley
I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.
‐‐ Geraldine Page
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal
I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.
‐‐ Ashton Irwin
I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.
‐‐ Olly Murs
I always wanted to be in movies.
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden
I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.
‐‐ John Garfield
I always wanted to be in this role, as a songwriter. In the Pumpkins, it was always impossible because Corgan would wake up and write five songs. He was so prolific, there wasn't a lot of room for anyone else.
‐‐ Jimmy Chamberlin
I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.
‐‐ Sue Townsend
I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.
‐‐ Carly Rae Jepsen
I always wanted to be known as the girl who was good at hockey rather than the girl you see in magazines.
‐‐ Casey Eastham
I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
‐‐ Garry Marshall
I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.
‐‐ Claudia Schiffer
I always wanted to be loved.
‐‐ Dolly Parton
I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
‐‐ Abby Wambach
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel
I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.
‐‐ Kim Yuna
I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.
‐‐ Cheyenne Jackson
I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
‐‐ Victoria Jackson
I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.
‐‐ Alex Newell
I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.
‐‐ Meek Mill
I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort
I always wanted to be really experimental.
‐‐ Grimes
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
‐‐ Bear Grylls
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
‐‐ Jackie Kennedy
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
‐‐ Althea Gibson
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier