Mary-Kate Olsen Quotes

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

One of the ways that I think about my being an artist and an actor is... it's an experiment.

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their stages. That was the theatre that nurtured me to expand as an artist.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

Jayne Houdyshell and I - when I was 17 years old - did summer stock together at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, IL. She was the leading lady of the company, and I was an intern.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.

My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.

The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.

I feel like acting's a really good excuse because I just get to pretend to do everything and then back out if I don't like it.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

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

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

Everybody has a savage instinct.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

We do things instinctively and not necessarily rationally. It's almost like we're being controlled by unseen forces, which is something I don't like. I've been making a real effort to try to find out what those forces are and get them out of my life.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.