Bryan Greenberg Quotes

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

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.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

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

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

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.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.