Alycia Debnam-Carey Quotes

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

Over the years, I have worked professionally as a musician, photographer, and writer. I've been able to earn my living in other ways, but I always knew I'd come back to acting.

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.

I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.