Lily James Quotes

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I just wanted to be an action hero! Then I grew up, and my interests were different.

Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.

I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.