Jessica Rothe Quotes

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

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

Acting is what I do with who I am.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I am always experimenting with roles.

I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

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

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

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

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.