Jen Kirkman Quotes

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.

I have a lot of energy, and as you get to know me, you will quickly learn that! I channel my energy into my acting, my writing, everything.

Little by little, when I was doing auditions in New York, I discovered I was good. People there were enthusiastic.

The only time it's ever like work is when you don't like what you've done. I'm very lucky in that I haven't cultivated fame. Which, from what I've seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they're successful at it ... Especially people that aren't such talented actors.

If I can still be successful making films and no-one will ever know me, then that would be great. Because we (actors) just like to do what we do. People who are doing it for fame, I don't know if they ever get really successful.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing books. And you tend to only get these things if you want them, and want them to the exclusion of everything else.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'