Annie Ilonzeh Quotes

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life.

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor.

I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be in show business!