Anita Dobson Quotes

I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

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.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

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

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 choose roles that are not me.

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.

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to grow with the character. That transformation, for me, is what I love about my job. I get to learn about myself and challenge myself and grow with the character. For me, it's a whole process of learning and growing.

I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.