Cree Summer Quotes

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, 'I did not choose acting; acting chose me.' I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football.

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

Acting is a youthful profession.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

I really consider acting a high art.

Theatre is an actor's medium. An actor has little control over a film. Which is why most actors who have done theatre, and then come to films find the former more creatively satisfying.

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.