Parker Posey Quotes

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

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

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

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.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

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.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

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

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

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