Alison Lohman quotes

Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It's not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it's something in his spirit. It's almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it's really simple. It was so easy to work with him." (Alison Lohman)

She's so young and so impressionable. There's an innocence and a vulnerability that you almost can't really manufacture. It's like a look in the eye that a young girl has that a 23-year-old doesn't.

Alison Lohman

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

Alison Lohman

I wore a blue spandex outfit and a gold belt. It was goofy and off-the-wall, but I love doing things like that.

Alison Lohman

I wanted to look young in this role, it was a needed thing. She's 14. This role I really needed to feel 14, I had to be 14 in every way possible, so I hung out with my 14 year-old cousin for a month. She had a retainer and pigtails and all that. There's something in their eyes, between age 10 and 15 I think, it's just that sort of ‘anything is possible' look. For me, the most beautiful thing you could ever see is like a child's eyes. I wanted to really make sure that I captured her spirit, that youthful spirit. For me it's all about dreaming. What does she look like when she walks? What's the look in her eye? It's not about, ‘Oh, on this move, I'm going to put my arm like that.' It's just the whole spirit, so that any way that I would move would be right.

Alison Lohman

One of the reasons I've hesitated to be an actor is you have to do talk shows and interviews. I'm really a private person and not into telling everything about me. Michelle [Pfeiffer] told me to think of doing publicity as the work and acting as the fun part.

Alison Lohman

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Alison Lohman

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Alison Lohman

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about.

Alison Lohman

I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He's very, very subtle and nuanced. It's very much in the eyes. That's how it is in real life. He's such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.

Alison Lohman

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer. (Alison Lohman)

I like to take a character and develop it.

Alison Lohman

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

Alison Lohman

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

Alison Lohman

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

Alison Lohman

I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing.

Alison Lohman