Hayden Christensen Quotes

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Acting is therapeutic.

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

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.

Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

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

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.