Joe Keery Quotes

If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

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 love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.