Alexis Ren Quotes

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

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

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

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

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

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 use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

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

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

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

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.