Laura Carmichael Quotes

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

A career in film didn't seem like something I could attain. Whereas I grew up next to New York City, and I spent my life going into New York City seeing plays, and I was a theater actor in school. Acting on the stage felt really natural to me, and I liked it, and I wasn't terrible at it.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

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.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

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

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

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've tried to take roles with great demands.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I'm very serious about acting.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.