Nina Conti Quotes

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

Acting's boring.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

I just love working with actors in general.

Acting is the way I make my living.

Acting is my job.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I have done a lot of theater.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

I was a drama major through college.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.