Mary Elizabeth Winstead Quotes

I love playing strong power-oriented roles.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

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

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

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.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

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.

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. I love to create.

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

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.

I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.