Sylvia Kristel Quotes

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.