Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

There are lots of things to do. Lots of movies to catch. Lots of places to visit... I try to bring in every real life experience into my acting.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

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

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

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.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

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

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.