Edward Herrmann Quotes

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

Painting completed my life.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.