Kathryn Newton Quotes

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

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

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

Sonya is the way she is for a reason and I love enlightening the fans on what those things are because so many people are going through similar experiences and have amazing stories I love to hear and relate to myself.

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.