Miranda Rae Mayo Quotes

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you represent.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.