Jane Levy Quotes

I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.

I never thought of acting Bollywood. I have not seen many films.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

I love working with actors. I do.

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.