About
I am a German Turkish actress living in NYC. My journey started in Berlin. I then moved to Istanbul and London before I settled in NYC.
Followed my strong acting urge, that started in London, and I ended up training as an actress, singer and dancer.
In order to find satisfactory answers to my endless 'why' questions, I chose to explore acting, plays, films, songs and poetry...and the quest goes on.
I love quotes.
So here are mine.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
“Do you know how theatre originated? Theatre began as an off-shoot of religion, with the singular purpose of helping us to understand what it means to be human, in all its poignancy, humor and devastation.
As our ancestors gazed up at the stars trying to fathom our purpose the high priestess of the tribe, the shaman, would recount the stories of the past, enacting the different roles: the hero, the beloved, the antagonist; allowing his body temporarily to become possessed, and letting the spirit archetypes channel through him.
This was the original acting. It meant dissolving the ego.
I call it: The Grace. In those moments when The Grace flows I feel connected to the entire universe.”
Eleanora Duse
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”