Amanda Seales Quotes

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening, because I can resonate.

I would like to be re-considered as a person.

If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.

Sonya is the way she is for a reason and I love enlightening the fans on what those things are because so many people are going through similar experiences and have amazing stories I love to hear and relate to myself.

Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

I understand exactly what I am.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.