Patrick Stewart Quotes

Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do.

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I never not wanted to become an actress.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

I do theatre for my personal satisfaction and enjoyment.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

I've always had an itch for acting and a passion for acting, but never really got to dabble into it too much, and now I can say I'm officially an acrtress.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

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.

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

Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.