Sophie Cookson Quotes

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

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.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

Acting is in your soul.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

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

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.