Ty Simpkins Quotes

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

In my late teens and early 20s, I worked hard on my roles, but, to be honest, I didn't feel any special commitment to acting.

I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.

If you think of people, the majority of us, we can't do what we really love. I am really grateful that I can work with my dream.

Whatever you dream is you find a way to get there, even if you're not paid a lot. Do it for the love of what you do.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to work full time as an actor, filmmaker. When I get to that level, which I will, in this business where I can spend one hundred percent of my time honing my craft, then I will be complete.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.