Cailee Spaeny Quotes

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.

I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if it's not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I'm always looking for roles to challenge me and ones which I'll enjoy playing.

As an actress who has performed in theater for over 17 years, my experience performing in 'The Color Purple' has been a truly life-changing journey.

For me, it's always the script. The script which gives me the chance to do something new; that has been my prime objective ever since I started acting. There's nothing else that excites me more than that.

I look for roles that are a good story for me as an actress and what I think will grow me as an actress and person. I also just really enjoy working with people who are passionate about what they do.

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.