Alicia Witt Quotes

• "Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone."
• "All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline."
• "I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer."
• "I have to be cast as the redhead, I guess. But aside from that, the more obvious typecasting I try to stay away from. Like in the past year I've played an attorney, a call girl, an ex-porno star, an entertainment executive."
• "I love singing. I just did a musical. It was interesting how people I knew in the audience affected my performance."
• "I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life."
• "I was just offered a movie where they said, specifically, that I was going to have to be topless. I had to pass on it."
• "I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened."
• "I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA."
• "I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me."
• "In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous."
• "It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!"
• "It's interesting to see what people come up with and what they say that isn't true. I read on one site that I collect wigs and I like to wear kabuki makeup. I've never worn kabuki makeup in my life, and I own three wigs, which I've worn on occasion for fun-just to surprise people."
• "John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it."
• "My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before."
• "On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character."
• "Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound."
• "Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian."
• "There's some pianos you play and your fingers don't really sink into the keys. But I like when you play a loud, passionate section-your fingers really sink in and you can just make the room really sing with noise. I like a really singing tone, a rich, full tone."
• "When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl."
• "You always see that red-carpet, flashing-camera kind of thing on TV, and then you're standing on the red carpet posing. I think the definition of awkward is a line of 20 photographers who are taking your picture and you're supposed to pose for them in front of a bunch of people."
• "You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both."
• "It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!"