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Actors Quote by Lola Kirke

“I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.” quote by Lola Kirke — Download Open image

“I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.”

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I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start…

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I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

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I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

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I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

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I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

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The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was…

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You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still…

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If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out?…

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question -…

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As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five…

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I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city…

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