Rupert Penry-Jones Quotes

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just amazing to get to work on your art on a daily basis and do what you love.

Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.

I think if I'd have been an actor who didn't care, I'd have less gray hair, and I'd be a lot less tired.

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

To me, success has already happened. I get to make records and live doing that. Success is that.

The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

You just have to do the things you love, and if you're pursuing the things you love honestly, for the right reasons, then you'll get what you want.

I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me.