Shaun Evans Quotes

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

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

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

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

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

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.

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 love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

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

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

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

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

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.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.