Ann Dowd Quotes

It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.

I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. But if it were said that I hadn't fulfilled my potential as an actress, I would understand the reasons why.

I'm happy with the life I'm making for my wife and son. That's the most important thing.

I joined 'Veruthe Alla Bharya' in 2011, when I got married to Sreevalsan. Later, when I became a mother, I was offered the children's show, 'Katturumbu.'

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, "I'm an actor." I have it in my blood. It's in every pore of my body. There's always something awesome about every project, even with the worst ones. I try to remind myself every time I think about complaining that there are way worse jobs than mine.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'.

t is for me because I needed to do this. I really think actors shouldn't act unless they really need it in their lives. I think it has to be something that is so much a part of your chemistry, such a passion, that you can't live without it. You should not do it just because you are seeking fame or want to get rich.

I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.