Trudie Styler Quotes

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

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

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

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

Acting is therapeutic.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

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

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.