Tilda Swinton Quotes

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

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

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.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

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 don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

I always wanted to act in movies.

Though I love cinema, I had never thought of becoming an actress.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I want to act in films such as 'My Left Foot' and 'A Beautiful Mind.'

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

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

I always wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be a part of good movies. Wherever I get to do these two things, it's enough for me.

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.

I am an accidental actor.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.