Jorja Smith Quotes

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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

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

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

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

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

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

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

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 wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.