Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.

I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

I loved doing 'Teachers.' I don't know if it's set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial penury for two years. But as much as I love it - and it's a huge sacrifice - as much as I love it, I'm in acting because I'm searching to do lots of different things.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.

I'd just like to carry on acting.

I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.

Yeah I had the poof thing before the acting because I did ballet.