Sarah Brightman Quotes

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

I have always been a multitasker when it comes to my career; I've been an actress, a singer and everything because I love to do what I do.

I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

Over the years, I have worked professionally as a musician, photographer, and writer. I've been able to earn my living in other ways, but I always knew I'd come back to acting.

I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up.