Eric McCormack Quotes

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

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.

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

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

I sell escapism.

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.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I love playing an alien.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

I had a lot of fun playing a naagin. It is all fantasy, so it was great.

Playing characters is fun because you get the chance to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.