Nikki Reed Quotes

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

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

I would do theatre till I die. Theatre keeps your honesty alive. You can't pollute yourself. You learn a lot, and you use theatre techniques in life.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.

I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.

I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.

I come from theatre, and I feel like I have to go back to it every few years because it's like nourishment for the soul. And, as an actor, it's the place you have most control: no one cuts or edits you, and you get to tell the story each night.

Every time I choose a role, I see whether it excites me and offers me the potential to challenge myself.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.

The joy of doing the TV or something like 'Sacrifice' isn't really the process of doing it; the joy is going through this real-life experience.

I've always wanted to perform and act my whole life and to understand people more, so that's the only reason I've got to work with the people I've worked with.

My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

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.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.