Rita Ora Quotes

Acting is what I do with who I am.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I choose roles that are not me.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

It is part of me; I could definitely be that if I wanted to, I just choose not to. I mean, I am an actress at my core, and I think we're all a little crazy.

There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.

It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.

In my life, I didn't get into comedy to be - I had no business model. All I wanted to do was, basically, finish becoming myself. And you stand in front of people and be seen and heard in this format. I thought it was the most practical format for me to express whatever it was I was going through. Whatever my ideas were in my evolving philosophy about life. I obviously don't sell out theaters. I'm not a household name. I'm not incredibly consistent in terms of doing the same act over and over again, and I'm definitely working out a lot of my existential issues onstage.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.