Caity Lotz Quotes

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

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

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.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

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

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

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

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

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

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

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

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.