Jacob Anderson Quotes

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

Acting should be an end in itself.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.

I decided I want to sing more because that's been my passion since I was six.