Werner Klemperer Quotes

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

You don't become the character.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.