Josh Hutcherson Quotes

Acting is what I do with who I am.

There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make it a bit more difficult. I guess I do allow myself to explore more when I know that, at the end of the day, if I really wanted to, I could just play a different person all day and be fine with that.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

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

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

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

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.