Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

Acting should be an end in itself.

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.