Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

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

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

Acting is the way I make my living.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

Acting is my job.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

I think I was born to be an actor.

My job as an actor is to live the role that I do.