Enrico Caruso Quotes

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world.

I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be a drummer, but I got really good at it. I always feel like I'm an actor playing the drums." His real calling was that he was going to be a magician. That's what he felt like he wanted to do. If you decide to act like a journalist, you'll probably be a better journalist than just being a journalist. What you're doing is, you're taking the executive role and stepping outside yourself so that you're able to make more objective decisions.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.