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I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

— Candis Cayne

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

— Eddie Redmayne

I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

— Dick Van Dyke

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

— Claire Danes

You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.

— Felicity Jones

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

— Cate Blanchett

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.

— Craig Roberts

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

— James McAvoy

I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.

— Darren Star

I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.

— Adam Schlesinger

✗Opposing Perspectives

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

— Rebecca Hall