Jeremy Irvine Quotes

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it's worth it to me.

I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.

Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.

Acting has been the only thing so far that really gets me jazzed. It's like my girlfriend in a lot of ways. We fight. We have a relationship, and she gets me up every morning. I'm inspired by it, and I want to one day be really good at it and see what we can do together.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

I simply don't want to enter the rat race. I like doing movies because I like acting and not because I want to reach the top.

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'

I don't want to do acting as a chore or a job.

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.