George Orwell Quotes

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

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

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

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Everyone has a mirror face that's so different from their natural face. And I think it's interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they're putting themselves together.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

On a personal level, you wear different masks.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

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