Steven R. McQueen Quotes

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

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

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

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

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

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

There is no longer any pressure to play the heroine. So I can have fun and be the actor I want to be. I can look beyond the hairstyles and the clothes and concentrate on the acting.

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

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

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

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

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

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

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.

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.

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.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.