Kate Moss Quotes

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

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

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 like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

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.

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

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.