Tom Bateman Quotes

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

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

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

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

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

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

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

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I always try to make each character my own.

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.