I love acting like I’m in love. It’s a very positive thing.

Seyfried distinguishes between personal romance and the craft of performing romance. The line suggests that “being in love” is, for an actor, a playable state—an energy and openness that can be summoned without requiring a real-life relationship. Calling it “positive” frames love not as melodrama or dependency but as an affirmative emotional posture: attentive, hopeful, generous, and alive to possibility. Implicitly, she also points to acting’s psychological benefit: inhabiting an uplifting emotional condition can be pleasurable and even restorative, regardless of whether it reflects one’s private circumstances. The quote thus celebrates acting as a safe, controlled way to experience intense feeling and to transmit that warmth to an audience.