Cary Grant Quotes

Roles make the actor.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

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.

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.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

I play grizzlys, but I'm not a grizzly. I'm a song-and-dance man.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

You have to be someone.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.