Sinead O'Connor Quotes

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Acting is a mysterious process.

Acting is in your soul.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.