Corin Nemec Quotes

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.