Karen Allen Quotes

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

As I write, I try to be the character.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

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.

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

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.