Melanie Lynskey Quotes

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

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

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

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

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

Acting is always therapeutic.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

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

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you represent.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

Acting is therapeutic.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

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.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

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.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.