Connie Nielsen Quotes

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.

I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing? If I look up and notice the camera I go 'Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX.' And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

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

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

Acting was my first love.

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.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

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

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

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

Fight scenes are very physical for me. Sometimes I require my own body to move through them before I can tell where a character's likely to feel it.