Dana Spiotta Quotes

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

On a personal level, you wear different masks.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

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

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

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

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

Your character is who you really are.