Christopher Gorham Quotes

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

You don't become the character.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

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

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Actors are investigators.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

I think acting is a work of imagination.