Jessica Rothe Quotes

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

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

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

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.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.