Demetrius Shipp Jr. Quotes

For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.

Acting is a form of confession.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

It really is individual for everyone, but for me, theater is where I learn and grow, and that is always a good thing.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

There's a lot to the story. And there are a lot of things I've learned about myself and about love, and I'm really grateful for the lessons, and I hope I can share that through art. I look for projects that allow me to do that, whether it's music or acting.

'Blackheart' was the moment for me to really open up and let people into the world that is me.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

Acting should be an end in itself.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

Acting is always therapeutic.

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