Kelly McGillis Quotes

I love this acting stuff.

I like everything about acting.

I love the art of acting, so whether I do it on film with a million people seeing me or I do it in front of 20 people in a class showcasing my art, I am going to act whether anyone sees it or everyone sees it.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

I never liked miming.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

Basically, I love to act. The medium is not important.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

We lived and breathed acting.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.