William Zabka Quotes

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

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all these dresses, and I'd say to myself, 'Okay, this isn't me. It's somebody else. So, who is this person?' Acting is the next level of that.

You got to constantly be in character.

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

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

You have to find out how to become the character.

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

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

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

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

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about 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.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

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.

You don't become the character.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

Once the makeup is on, it is easy to enter the character's frame of mind.