Darren Criss Quotes

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

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.

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

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

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

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

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.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

I consider myself a character actor.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!