Vanessa Lengies Quotes

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Dance was my escape from reality.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.

I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put your eyebrow back where it was and, you know, turn to the left.' You know, I'm sort of very consciously adopting this character. But with music, I don't know. I found it was a question of just closing my eyes and just sort of letting things come out.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.