Dale Robertson Quotes

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.

Every character I play is me.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

I find it easy to be myself as an actor.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.