Daveed Diggs Quotes

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

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

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

I go to the theater and dream. You learn your lines, and that gives you the security to allow the imagination and heart to come out.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that.

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.