Jayne Mansfield Quotes

I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced - it made me into this obsessive, creative creature... I don't know any other way of putting it.

Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

I was always passionate about acting.

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.

When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.