Kathryn Newton Quotes

I don't want to do acting as a chore or a job.

There is nothing I feel that connected or passionate about that would take me away from acting.

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

If you go into acting to make money then you're an idiot. It's my hobby and the fact that I'm doing my hobby for a job is mental.

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

Working hard as an actor means you're doing what you want to do.

Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

The only thing I could see myself doing is music - songwriting or producing or something. I've never seen myself being in any other business, I've been working in this one since I was 5 years old! I could do other things, but I wouldn't want to.

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, "I'm an actor." I have it in my blood. It's in every pore of my body. There's always something awesome about every project, even with the worst ones. I try to remind myself every time I think about complaining that there are way worse jobs than mine.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.