Eliza Scanlen Quotes

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'

As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.

We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.