Rachel Keller Quotes

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

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.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

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

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

It's just a continuous process, trying to work through it, trying find that comfort zone and go from there. That's kind of where I'm at. I feel pretty good about where I'm at.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I've become obsessed with trying to figure out who I am against situations that make me uncomfortable and not settled, ensuring that that fear of stagnation doesn't allow me to flip into that bubble of privilege.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.