Delta Burke Quotes

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I very shyly, timidly admitted that I wanted to be an actor. He sighed, and he said, 'Lupita, only be an actor if you feel there is nothing else in the world you want to do - only do it if you feel you cannot live without acting.'

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

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 wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

Somewhere deep inside, I knew I had to be an actress.

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

There've been times I felt like, 'I don't know if I want to do this.' That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?

I truly love being an actor. I love it with all my heart and soul, and I hope that I get to do it for a very long time.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.

I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

I love acting, but I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.