Lola Kirke Quotes

I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

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.

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I'd like to be a steadily working actor and to do as many things as possible. I'm really enjoying the life.

I would love to do better in mainstream Hindi films, but one thing I must say is that my best experience so far has been in the Punjabi film industry, where I've been around for more than 11 years.

Tamil industry has been offering me wonderful roles, and that is what keeps me here.

I am quite content with my work in Malayalam cinema, and so there was never any reason to look outside for opportunities.

I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing my own thing.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

I've been lucky to have things come to me that creatively fulfill me, and those are usually the independent films just because you have a little bit more freedom.

The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.