Liam Cunningham Quotes

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

I'd love to start doing some films and really kind of pursue acting as much as possible. That's really where my main focus is.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

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.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

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.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

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

I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.

Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long way to go within that in terms of being able to perform and write songs. But, yeah, I really hope 'The Possession' opens doors for me to do more acting, because I really enjoyed it.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

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.

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.

I can't actually pinpoint anything that made me want to be an actor - I just did. And then anything after that just fueled it.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.