Alison Brie Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

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

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

For me, acting is doing.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.

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

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

Acting truly is a love of mine.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.