Kelly Reilly Quotes

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.