Brett Davern Quotes

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

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

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

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

It's fun to be someone else.

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

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

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

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.

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.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

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

I love getting to be someone else, to explore the parts of myself and other people that we may keep locked away or have no idea exist within us. I also love starting new projects because I always walk away with such a wonderful new group of friends.