Alicia Vikander Quotes

I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.

I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing.

I don't really make a distinction because when I'm acting, I feel like an actor, and when I DJ, I feel like a DJ, and when I play the guitar, I feel like a guitar player. I don't know which I prefer. I think I just like to perform, in some way or another.

I'm glad that it worked out that I get to act and play music and perform.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

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

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

I started out doing the acting, and there was always an interest in music, and then the music just took off.

I've been doing both music and acting since I was pretty little. Just for fun. Being able to peruse both professionally is the greatest thing in the whole world.

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.

In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.