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Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

— Dermot Mulroney

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

— Sean Bean

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

— Ed Asner

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

— Mary Page Keller

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

— James D'arcy

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

— James Garner

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

— David Carradine

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.

— Kathryn Prescott

I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something related to performing arts, and I enjoyed acting the most as it incorporated so many different art forms.

— Ranveer Singh

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Hugh Dancy

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

— Skylar Astin