Natalie Dormer Quotes

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

There are a million roles I haven't played yet that I would love to play!

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

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

Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

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

When you hit your strive, and you feel confident in what you're doing and in your process, you really want to do more and try lots of different things. I've also really worked on my breathing, which is a funny thing to talk about, if you're not an actor. I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

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

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.