Ashley Wagner Quotes

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

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

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

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.

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I always loved dressing up and telling stories.

It's fun to channel a different mood and character through makeup.

Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.

When I started doing makeup, I had no intention of doing drag.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

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

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.