Andy Dick Quotes

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

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

Acting is a form of confession.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

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.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

Acting made me realise this is me; this is what I always wanted to be. Even today, I am an awkward kid, and I feel most comfortable when I become a character before the camera.

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.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

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

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

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