Liberty Ross Quotes

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.