Amy Adams Quotes

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.

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.

I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Cinema has given me everything in life, and I will continue acting till the end.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

I hope to someday be a great actress and a wonderful performer.

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.