Jon Hamm Quotes

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

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

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

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

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

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.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

I always feel like I'm an actress.

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

People tend to think that's your life when you're playing a role.

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

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

Roles make the actor.