Daily Inspiration Quote by Alison Lohman

The line reads almost laughably modest, but that’s its quiet power: in an era when actors are expected to sell a brand, Alison Lohman frames acting as craft, not aura. “I like” softens it into preference, not manifesto. It’s a way of sidestepping the celebrity-industrial demand for big statements about “transformation” or “truth” and instead planting a flag in something practical: building a person from the inside out.

“Take a character” implies the material is already there, waiting - a script, a set of circumstances, a few lines of dialogue. The verb “develop” does the heavy lifting. It’s a nod to process: choices, backstory, posture, rhythm, the private logic that makes a fictional person feel inevitable rather than performed. Subtextually, it’s also a defense against the idea that acting is just vibes or photogenic charisma. She’s pointing to labor, to hours of thinking that don’t show up in a red-carpet photo.

Context matters with Lohman because much of her best-known work sits in high-contrast genres and psychologically loaded roles (from indie character studies to heightened horror). In those spaces, “develop it” is a pledge not to let genre do the acting for you. Even when the plot is loud, the character can’t be generic. The intent is professional humility; the subtext is artistic control: she’s telling you where the real performance lives, and it’s not in the spectacle.