Moran Atias Quotes

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

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

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

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

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.

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

You don't become the character.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

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

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

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.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

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.

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

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