Sophia Bush Quotes

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.

Money or no money, acting is my calling.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Acting is everything to me; it's what I've always wanted to do. I may never have this chance to do what I'm doing right now. So I guess right now I'm going to do as much as I can with it.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I would love to be on Broadway!

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Hollywood is my day job.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

I want to do theater, TV, movies.