Nivin Pauly Quotes

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

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.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I definitely still have my hand in acting. I don't think I would be able to walk away from it. It's my passion.

Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration... it's mentally draining.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

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

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.