Ernest Borgnine Quotes

To work is to feel alive.

I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.

I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

It doesn't really matter where the opportunity comes from, as long as I have fun doing the work.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I'm not at my best when I'm not working - I'm certainly not at my happiest. Acting will always be my first love.

I love reading and learning. With acting, I get to put all that into my work and still get to do my homework and imagine I can do all these different jobs.

I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

I just enjoy what I do - looking forward to going on a film set, being in front of the camera, interacting with many people. I'm fortunate to be living my dream.

That's one thing that attracts me to roles the most - how much potential there is for me to learn from it.

It's fun matching steps with younger actors. It gives me the confidence to keep going.

I really enjoy working. It doesn't tire me.

I love what I do. Every show is it's own challenge and I love it.