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.
I noticed the quote was transcribed incorrectly from its source, so I made my first edit on wikiquote.org:
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Acting&oldid=3389445