Brenda Blethyn Quotes

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

I'm a dramatist.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

I would love to do films - ones that get seen.

I love directing.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.