Marisa Berenson Quotes

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

Art helped give me confidence.

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

Modelling, for me, I find that it's like acting.

Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.

I like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That's what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I've ever known.

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

I know that I have the ability to keep a play alive.

I always often say, when I was a kid, I wasn't just playing with baby dolls. I was standing in the mirror with brush in my hand as a microphone singing songs.

I'm happiest when in front of the camera, and I didn't know it until I got up there.

When you hit your strive, and you feel confident in what you're doing and in your process, you really want to do more and try lots of different things. I've also really worked on my breathing, which is a funny thing to talk about, if you're not an actor. I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.