Sophie Turner Quotes

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

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.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

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

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.