Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

I think acting is a gift.

Acting is in your soul.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

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

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.