Liz Tuccillo Quotes

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

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

Around when I turned 17 and I bought my own studio equipment and started recording myself, I kinda found my own voice. I just started rapping like my normal self and this happy guy.

I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.

I find my inspiration in myself.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.