Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

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

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

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 went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

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

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.