Normani Kordei Quotes

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.