Lucas Cruikshank Quotes

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

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

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.

As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.

As I showed the world my art, my heart, I wasn't just an actress. I was actually an artist. And that was my transformation.

The best feeling you can ever have when you're working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.

I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.