Sutton Foster Quotes

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for a living is a good way to have a release and playing make believe is a good way of getting away from it and doing things like this. So I think work gets me away from life.

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.

I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed anybody. The fun of playing a brilliant musician is that I don't actually play any instruments.

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

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

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.