George A. Sheehan Quotes

My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

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.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.