Taapsee Pannu Quotes

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

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

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

It's fun to be someone else.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

I'm not really an impersonator.

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

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

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

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

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

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

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

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.