I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.
I'm glad that people have responded well to it, so far. I'm thankful for that. But, I'm also excited now that I have a better grasp of this character than I did before. I want to take it even further and really explore who Glenn is.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.
As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I just didn't really know who I was, so I didn't really know what I sounded like. And so I did a lot of writing, and I studied abroad, and I fell in love, and, like... I got to be like any other college student.
You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.
I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
I feel like my transition, in a broader sense, began the second I left home and came to New York. Because all of a sudden, I opened myself up to options about how to be.
Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.
Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.
Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.
When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I 'do things in front of people.' I don't know why I do what I do. I've tried working behind the scenes. I felt left out!
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.
It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
