Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

I just want to grow as an actor and work with good directors.

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and inspire myself as an actor, certainly not in terms of where I make money. Yeah, I can go off and do a play, but the reality is as a profession, directing is exponentially more satisfying.

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

I am an actor through and through.

In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.

I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.

I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

While I find my job as an actor challenging, I also think that there's fun in that challenge.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.