Kathryn Newton Quotes

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

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

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you're in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

I want to act, perform in my own way.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.