Top 30 Keiynan Lonsdale Quotes

There’s a lot to the story. And there are a lot of things I’ve learned about myself and about love, and I’m really grateful for the lessons, and I hope I can share that through art. I look for projects that allow me to do that, whether it’s music or acting.

I have a lot of brothers, and three or four of them love ‘The Flash’.

L.A. is cool because its still got the beaches and stuff like Sydney. But I can’t get Tim Tams. They’re, like, these chocolate biscuits with chocolate on the inside and on the outside, and they are the best.

Some people think ‘Higher’ is about literally getting high, and other people think it’s more in a spiritual sense. To me, it’s all that. To me, it was like I need to escape from this down state – emotionally, spiritually, mentally, everything. I want to be above this. Wherever we are now. I need to go up.

I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn’t afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording songs on GarageBand.

My main advice is, if it’s something you really want to do, then just go for it.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it’s the same environment that I’ve grown up in.

Hearing that you fit into someone’s idea of a superhero is a huge confidence builder.

You can live your dreams and wear dresses. You can live your dreams and kiss the one that you love no matter what gender they are.

Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different… which is just untrue.

You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself.

I originally went up for a role on the spinoff show, ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ and that led me to audition for Wally West in ‘The Flash’. I enjoy auditioning in general, but this was a particularly fun process because it was so unexpected.

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

‘The Flash’ comics are visually amazing and so well done. I wish I had been introduced to them when I was growing up.

As much as I think that in the future we won’t need labels, at the moment they’re really important. So I’m making myself embrace that. I truly am proud to be queer. Even watching ‘Queer Eye’ is something that inspired me to say that. So that’s the power of representation.

I just pack up my pantry with lots of Oreos and other chocolate treats to disguise the fact that I don’t have Tim Tams.

I actually don’t label myself, but… Some people call me queer; some people call me bisexual, whatever it is now. I’m happy with all of it ’cause it all sort of represents me, in a way. I spent a majority of my life in the closet.

I suffered a lot from social anxiety, and being on set was really scary to me. That fear can cause limits in your art and your performance because you’re not going all in because there is this little thing in your head.

From, like, two, three years old, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson and just wanted to be on stage with him. And my mum put me in dance classes, but I had a lot of social anxiety and didn’t want to be around people; I didn’t like to look at anyone in the eye, so that was a difficult thing to get over.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be on stage.

I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see that as one of the scariest things ever. And then also, I’m really not a fan of spiders and bugs.

I think what’s really important is valuing friendships and family a lot.

I always said to myself the only reason that I won’t get what I want in life is if I give up.

I’d be really honored to do more LGBTQ stories.

I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than my brothers and sisters, and I only met him when I was ten years old. Then he introduced me to his other children.

I was the youngest of the house that I grew up in, so I feel like, as the youngest, you have it pretty good. At the same time, I guess I required a lot of attention, being afraid of so many different things. So I was never seeking attention; I wanted the opposite.

I think younger fans can’t quite grasp that’s what you do as an actor. They’re like, ‘It doesn’t make sense. How can he talk like this when he talks like that on the show!’ It’s really cute, actually.

I think, in general, straight actors should be able to play queer roles just as much as queer actors should be able to play straight roles. I think the reason why the debate is there is because we haven’t had enough queer actors being cast in anything. People are in need of that representation in general.

Once I wrapped ‘Insurgent’, I went to Boston and shot a film called ‘The Finest Hours.’ It’s based on a real story in 1952 about a Coast Guard mission to rescue these sinking ships that are caught in a blizzard.

I’ve become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared… no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live.