Lauren Gibbs Quotes

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

It's fun to be someone else.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. I don't see myself as this. But it gives you dramatic license to do almost anything when you're dressed as a bug.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.