Ansel Elgort Quotes

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

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

I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do.

I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

I've been able to reinvent myself and to keep an audience going at whatever age. This is terrific. I mean, how many actors get that chance?

I hold the record for the maximum number of obituaries written for an actor's career.

I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.

There have been actors who have been extremely successful by doing just about everything that came their way. But I do what I like doing and give it a certain time.

I have been in the industry for 11 years but still feel excited about my work. That is what keeps any actor going.

Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.

I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.