Sigourney Weaver Quotes

Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.

There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

I had in mind a long career.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.

I wanted to act; wherever that was, I was happy. It just happened to be in America for me.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Acting is where my heart is. I love acting.

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

I don't act to live. I live to act.