Carey Mulligan Quotes

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

I always wanted to do dramas. Ever since I was young, I wanted to be in a role where I could play a prostitute or a drug addict, because it's nice to be able to portray someone who is so far from you, which I love.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I would love to do some theater.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.