Tom Ellis Quotes

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

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

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

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

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've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

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.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I would love to do some theater.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

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

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

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 would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect.

I love acting, but I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.