Eliza Scanlen Quotes

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

I'm way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It's just my personality, I guess.

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.

I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven very well for me.

My family all thought I was a little nuts.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.

'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.

I initially was very drawn to playing a split personality. I've always wanted to do that kind of role.

I think the weird thing about playing a psychopath is that you really have to believe that you, as the character, did nothing wrong.