Hailee Steinfeld Quotes

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

Whatever big movie I work in, ultimately my concern is my personality. I make sure that I keep it up.

For me, everything is a performance.

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

I am me. I've always been a character, and my character's story lives into pro wrestling.