Danielle Macdonald Quotes

Acting is everything to me; it's what I've always wanted to do. I may never have this chance to do what I'm doing right now. So I guess right now I'm going to do as much as I can with it.

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting.

I see myself following my dream to keep singing and acting.

I love experimenting and doing new things in life, and if things fall into place, I'm ready to take up acting, too.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

I hope to be acting until I am 90.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I went back to high school and decided that I wanted to be a kid for a while, whatever that means, but once again I found myself back with acting, so clearly I couldn't escape the passion.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.