Lindsey Morgan Quotes

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.