Ashley Wagner Quotes

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

For me, acting is doing.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Acting doesn't suffice.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

Singing is also like acting, since I memorize my lines, and I sing with emotions, too.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

Acting is a mysterious process.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.