Amanda Bynes Quotes

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

I want to continue acting as long as I feel right about it.

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.

When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.

I mean, I don't necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good play.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out.

In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different genres as it can get repetitive.

I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.

I did not come to Mumbai because I wanted to be a star. I came to Mumbai because I genuinely love acting, and it gives me a kick.

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.