Danielle Campbell Quotes

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

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.