Elizabeth Banks Quotes

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

I have always given my 100 per cent to the characters I believed in.

Acting is where my heart is. I love acting.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.

Acting is what I'm living and breathing on a day-to-day basis.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.