Jemima Kirke Quotes

Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

It just clicked that it was the next step for me; choreographing didn't interest me, and opening a studio wasn't a passion for me. I didn't know if I'd be very good at acting, but then my first scene in acting class... I just loved it.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I definitely still have my hand in acting. I don't think I would be able to walk away from it. It's my passion.

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.