Elizabeth Mitchell Quotes

I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great writing, it's pretty much something I can't resist.

I was always in love with film and becoming a character and playing something else, and nobody ever told me no, so I just followed it, and here I am, having a ton of fun.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

Acting is in your soul.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

Acting is the only thing that makes me happy.