56 Quotes by Liana Liberato

I don’t ever want an acting to be a job. I want this to be an outlet for my creativity, and something I just simply enjoy doing. I don’t ever want it to become something too serious.

I don’t necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don’t want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it’s so easy to go the cliche route.

When I was younger, I didn’t know who a lot of those people were because I couldn’t watch any of their movies. I actually get way more starstruck now. I think starstruck is the wrong word – I get overly enthusiastic about who I work with.

I think it’s important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I’ve gotten is to live in the moment. Sometimes you can get too into your head when you’re in a scene.

I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that’s when I’d actually sit down and listen.

Acting is still fun. It’s still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

I don’t think I’d ever want to direct. I don’t think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don’t want my hair color to not go grey during that process.

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.

The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, 'Oh well, she works.'