Chloe Pirrie Quotes

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

I don't have actor training myself.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.