Rowan Blanchard Quotes

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

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 what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.

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.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

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

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

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

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.