Elijah Kelley Quotes

It's a great thing if you're a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it's great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they're doing.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

I feel like music and acting are so much my love, and they're so much equal in my eyes. I couldn't really choose between the two.

I love working with talented young performers.

It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films that inspire me, and to work with people who make me better. I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

Charlie Murphy has been around for a long time. I've worked with a lot of exciting artists, and it was a thrill to be around to watch them display their skills.

My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

An entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. An artist is on a journey: they don't know where they're going, what is going to happen, but they know they are not there yet, and there is some continuity and growth. I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.