Lily James Quotes

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

You have to be someone.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

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

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

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.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

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

Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.'

I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.

John Cena is John Cena - it's really not a character he is playing.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

I'm fascinated by people who can keep who they are in the midst of this business, which is all about not only pretending to be other people, but also that perception of who you are and how successful you are and your standing in the business.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant