Anne Parillaud Quotes

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

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.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

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

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

My job as an actor is to live the role that I do.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

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.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

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.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.