Ellen Page Quotes

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

When I am on a set and I am working, I am almost near-obsessive about it. I love the process.

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

It's so incredible when you meet somebody who comes up and passionately tells you how much they liked you in a movie, or how much they liked thamovie. That's a great thing, because I know what I get out of watching a great movie. So I love what I do, but it's more - I don't think there'd be anybody who would tell you that, even if it's something they love doing, they don't get stressed out by it. I'm a very intense person, so I go very intensely and passionately into what I do.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

Acting has always been my passion.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

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

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

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