Top 30 Morgan Saylor Quotes

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.

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

I’m not very good at keeping secrets.

I’m trying to be more put-together. My closets are very messy. I like Rebecca Minkoff; her clothes are casual, but cool. I love Band of Outsiders. And ASOS makes a lot of good stuff. I can get lost on their website for hours. I don’t like to spend a lot of money on clothes.

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 get so bummed when I have to return the clothes I’m lent. It’s easy to feel so special, but like Cinderella, you lose your shoes.

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

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 getting more into fashion. I’m surprised that I’m getting into it because I was always wearing goofy stuff in high school.

I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren’t as important – you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don’t do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.

I love both of my parents.

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.

Before I turned 18, I had all these rules. Like, I could only work ten hours a day, and I had to go to school.

I like to read on the train.

I would not openly categorize myself as a sullen teenager, but that kind of role comes more easier to me than a bright, perky thing.

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

‘Homeland’ is intense, and I think it would be a hard show to watch if it were intense for 60 straight minutes.

Everyone knows kids who are snotty, and I wouldn’t consider myself one of them, but it’s easy to understand where they’re coming from.

I like being mysterious as an actress.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn’t seem like lying but like storytelling.

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

When I’m in New York and L.A., I get recognized a lot more.

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.

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

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?’

I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

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.

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 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 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.