Kelly McCreary Quotes

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.

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

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

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

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

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.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.