Chandler Riggs Quotes

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.

I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long way to go within that in terms of being able to perform and write songs. But, yeah, I really hope 'The Possession' opens doors for me to do more acting, because I really enjoyed it.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

If you don't have to worry about socializing because you don't like it, you can more fully immerse yourself in climbing.

I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.