Nikki Reed Quotes

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you want people to fall in love with.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

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.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.