Sammi Hanratty Quotes

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

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

Acting is always a challenge.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you're going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.