Jemima Kirke Quotes

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

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.

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

I love doing impressions.

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

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.