Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

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

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

It's fun to be someone else.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

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

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

If you can write it, I can be it.

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.

I find if you can look in the mirror and see something other than the face you see every day, it can free you up in terms of who you play. Wearing a mask can free you up.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

Halloween is all about being bold, daring, and creative! You get to be someone else for the night thanks to makeup and a costume. I pretty much do that on the daily, so I am not that big on Halloween, but I do appreciate a good costume and some incredible makeup.

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.