Paul Wesley Quotes

What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Being actors is a strange job.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

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.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

Acting is my job.

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

You know, I love acting.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I am an actor through and through.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.