James Remar Quotes

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

I still don't know what genre I fit into. I want to try my hand at different things and find out what I am best at. I want to discover myself as an actress.

When I first started out, all I thought about was my own acting.

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I guess my break in America came a little too early. It would've been nice to have a few more years to find out what I'm like as an actor without a camera on my face.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.