Glen Hansard Quotes

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.