Brina Palencia Quotes

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

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

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

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

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

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.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

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.

And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like 'People' and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

You live vicariously through your characters.

Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.

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.

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.

I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.