Susan Egan Quotes

It's fun to be someone else.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

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

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.

I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.

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

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

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.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.