Craig Mazin Quotes

I initially started making videos about my hair because I was struggling to style it and didn't know where to find help. Similarly, I started creating comedy content and doing characters and talking about things that were important to me because I didn't find a place to do that in the career that I wanted as an actress.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

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'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've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.

You have to find an identity that's true to yourself. You really have to find your own voice.

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

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.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

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

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

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