Odeya Rush Quotes

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

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.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

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 is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

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.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

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

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

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

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

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

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.