David Tennant Quotes

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

I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

I go to the theater and dream. You learn your lines, and that gives you the security to allow the imagination and heart to come out.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

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

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.