Martha Nussbaum Quotes

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

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

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

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

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.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

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

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.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

I look for characters that offer me opportunities to explore some aspect of the human condition. I think a lot of actors would say that and would look for that. I've been lucky enough to find projects that let me do that.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.