Jane Elliot Quotes

Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

Thank God for the theater.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.

I love acting and I have a lot of fun.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.