Laurel Van Ness Quotes

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

In comic books, every character exists in this comic book world, and the wrestlers were the same thing. They were responsible for creating that world and putting it out there - having the confidence to go forward and do that and behave in a certain way.

To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

Artists are so blessed as we get to live so many lives while doing different films.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.