Amy Sedaris Quotes

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

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

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

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

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

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

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

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

It's fun to be someone else.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

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

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

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.