Charlotte Ritchie Quotes

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

With my family as my audience, I used to sing, dance, and reenact every scene from 'Grease,' 'Newsies' and 'Les Miserables' as many times as they would let me.

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

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.