Eleanor Parker Quotes

I'm a character actress.

I am inclined to acting. I like to act and I like being an actor.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I played comedies and dramas.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I'd love to do a drama.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

I'm not really an actress.

I was always a character actress.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.

I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.