Eliza Scanlen Quotes

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

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

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.

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

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

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

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

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.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

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

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

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.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

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.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

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.