Lucy Boynton Quotes

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

I've done a lot of different characters, but people never recognize me. I'm not joking.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

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.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

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 know how people recognize me.

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

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

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

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

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

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

You have to find out how to become the character.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.