Gail Godwin Quotes

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

As an actress, you get to basically be your character.

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I played comedies and dramas.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.