Megan Park Quotes

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I love to think about and therefore talk about why people do what they do. That's kind of why I like being an actor.

Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

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.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when your character has a sense of self-awareness. It doesn't necessarily have to arc. It doesn't have to grow.