Natascha McElhone Quotes

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

Somewhere deep inside, I knew I had to be an actress.

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

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 still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love it if there was a part that meant I could do both acting and ballet, as they're both so close to my heart.

Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.

I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.

You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.

When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.

In show business, generally you don't retire. If you love it, that is, you're in it forever anyway.

I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.

I'd rather be called a good actor than be labelled a good-looking guy. I have been working towards it all along, and I hope to be able to go far ahead, because that's my foremost goal.

Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I'm not going to do it anymore.

I don't want to do acting as a chore or a job.

I did not come to Mumbai because I wanted to be a star. I came to Mumbai because I genuinely love acting, and it gives me a kick.