Aja Naomi King Quotes

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.

I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.

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.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

I can't imagine doing anything except acting.

Acting is my passion. I can't see myself doing anything else.

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

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

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

I wanted to be an actress since I was really, really small. I knew I didn't want to sing, and I didn't want to do music, and words were the ways I wanted to express myself.