Acting as a Vocation Quotes

I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.

I don't want to do acting as a chore or a job.

For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

Acting's more of a business for me now.

I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.

I truly love being an actor. I love it with all my heart and soul, and I hope that I get to do it for a very long time.

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, "I'm an actor." I have it in my blood. It's in every pore of my body. There's always something awesome about every project, even with the worst ones. I try to remind myself every time I think about complaining that there are way worse jobs than mine.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.