Karrine Steffans Quotes

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and the exploration of character.

I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

I've always been a writer.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.