“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.” PeopleShouldArtSaidPlayWantedSchoolDesireActorsActingTeacherTalentFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAcceptedHonestlyPerformingGradesAuditionsWhimPerforming ArtsEnglish Teacher Author:Ving Rhames
“Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.” ActorsPlayerFootballFootball Player Author:Ryan McPartlin
“I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.” MenI CanActorsForeverFootballHe ManCommitmentStressBeerInterviewsPredictableOrdinariness Author:Peter York
“To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.” MenEyeActorsPlayerFootballFameResponsibleFaultsAffairTriumphFeminineLove AffairLuminousPrestigeFootball PlayerOratorsHazeAviator Author:Andre Maurois
“maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.” CertainActorsFootballAmountEssentialsActressesMusclesNarcissismLineman Book:Flight to Yesterday Source: Flight to Yesterday
“The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.” TryingWellsActorsFootballHopefully Author:Jerry Rice
“I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.” ShowsActorsTeamFootballTvsTv ShowsFootball Team Author:Kristoffer Polaha
“As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn't do anything to me. By 11 a.m. I have to be angry. And by noon, I have to be furious.” CharacterActorsPlayerFootballAngryUpsetSundayNoonFuriousFootball Player Author:Thomas Jones
“When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.” WayActorsFootballGrewGrew UpLike MeLadPlaying Football Author:Sean Harris
“My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.” TwoBigsWould BeAbleActorsFootballCollegeDadMy DadAthleteCoachesAthleticCollege FootballFootball Coach Author:Matt Barr
“Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.” NeedsActorsCommonFootballBostonGreat ActorsDamon Author:Tom Brady
“Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenPlayActorsFunRolesRichFootballLuckyBeachMy ChildrenFabulousGood WayCaribbean Author:Gary Oldman
“Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.” LooksEndsBigsActorsGamesPiecesFieldsFootballStrategyTheatreScreensChessMovieBalletGlorifyPlaygroundsBig MovieAmplifyNarrationFootball FieldBattleground Author:Steve Sabol