Maud Adams Quotes

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

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.

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 think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

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

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.

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

I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

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 stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

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.

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

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

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.

Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.