Renee O'Connor Quotes

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

I've been on stage since I was eight.

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

I am such a gypsy.

All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn't much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that world, being backstage at the theatre.

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet in the commercial world to show that. Movies aren't really made about classical people so much any more.

My center is the soul of a gypsy.

I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's fine for them. But I'm such a free spirit, I feel more alive when I've got somewhere to go.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.

I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.