Kelly McCreary Quotes

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

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

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

You have to like the characters you play.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

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

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

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

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I want to play many different characters.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.