Laurence Olivier Quotes

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

I'm an artist in my heart.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.

I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing - zero - to do with anything resembling fame.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

I love working with talented young performers.

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.