Amandla Stenberg Quotes

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

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.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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.

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

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

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

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.

I feel like within each of us is a million different people that we could reveal and that we can be sometimes... And for me, the process of acting isn't so much about finding the person outside of myself and mimicking them but, rather, releasing parts of myself and adding them to the character.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

I think something that I've learned from other actresses is to really take the time to get to know yourself, especially because I think that your sense of self is easy to lose when you're playing other people.

You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

I like to be in control of my body. Also, I love getting into character and exploring a different aspect of who I am.