Douglas Booth Quotes

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

Roles make the actor.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

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

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.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

I play grizzlys, but I'm not a grizzly. I'm a song-and-dance man.

You just have to play the character.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

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

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.