Aaron Lazar Quotes

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

Acting is always therapeutic.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

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

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

You live vicariously through your characters.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

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

There is something special about being an actor and able to bring somebody's visualisation - director, storywriter and script writer - into life. It is almost like creating a person.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.