Top 33 Morgan Saylor Quotes

I like being mysterious as an actress.

I grew up kind of in the country, in western Georgia. And then I moved a lot closer to Atlanta, and I started doing plays, and when I started doing film, I think I really started to love it.

I try to miss as little school as possible.

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my ‘career’ started when I started ‘Homeland’.

I’m not good at Disney acting. I’m really not. I never was on that audition list, which I don’t mind. I don’t know. I look back, and I’m kind of wiping my forehead at the thought of, ‘What if I had gone that route?’

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it’s different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.

I was never good at that Disney/Nickelodeon kind of acting. It’s not really my cup of tea.

I tried the Crisco, and I hated it. Hated it! I couldn’t roll it out. I’m a butter girl for my pie crusts.

There’s something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

I’m not very good at keeping secrets.

I do use FaceTime because I’m frequently isolated from friends and my boyfriend, so I get that.

When I went to prom, I was in a group picture, and a parent zoomed in and took the picture of only me. I was weirded out, and later he was like, ‘Sorry, I was sending that to my sister.’

I like pushing myself as an actor.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you’re perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

Everybody gets lonely.

I think it’s cool to get to know designers. There is some anxiety, maybe, that after you’ve met a designer, you want to be loyal to them and wear their clothes. And sometimes it’s just not my style. But you have to be honest, and I don’t really want to lie.

Red carpets seem so glamorous, but you’re really just standing there sweating and worrying your hair is going to fall. And in the end, people are only going to see one picture of you. You just smile for one second and then you walk over to the side and check your phone. It’s pretty weird.

I’m such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and character motivations. And the way you evaluate functions is a really interesting way to look at stories and the way you act. I really believe it.

I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York and having a city at your disposal.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It’s kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn’t do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

I learned a lot from Cherry Jones, from the questions she asked and the opinions she had.

I like to live in New York and with people I know who have normal jobs or go to school.

I love both of my parents.

It’s so insane to me that this is my actual job, that I get to come to set and do what I enjoy doing and get paid for it.

‘Homeland’ does have that ability to tear the rug out from under you.

My first proper credit was a small voice-over on an episode of ‘The Sopranos’ when I was, like, 11 or 12.

I try to stay away from the Internet.

I like to go swimming, and I like salty hair.

I think it’s cool to provoke something in people.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn’t you.

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.