Eliza Doolittle Quotes

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time.

I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

I had never really thought about acting as art. You know, growing up in Youngstown, the Rust Belt of the world, it was always just a form of entertainment. Finally seeing it as an art form, I fell in love with it. So I moved out to California, never having visited before.

I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design.

I love acting. I would really love to act.

It's true you can end up as rich as Croesus but the thing I enjoy about acting is doing lots of different kinds of things.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

I'm glad that it worked out that I get to act and play music and perform.