Kate Bush Quotes

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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 really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

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

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

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

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

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

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

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

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

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I thought, Well, maybe I'm just going to try doing this myself before somebody else comes in and handles it. For a long time my acting was just a marriage of convenience between me and these characters that I was writing.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.