Tara Strong Quotes

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

So I always think it's important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.