Russell Hornsby Quotes

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

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

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

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

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

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

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

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

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

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

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

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

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.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.