Felicity Kendal Quotes

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

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

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

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.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

It's fun to be someone else.

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 want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

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

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.