Selena Gomez Quotes

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all these dresses, and I'd say to myself, 'Okay, this isn't me. It's somebody else. So, who is this person?' Acting is the next level of that.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

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

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

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

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.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

I'm one of those actors who finds the part in the wardrobe.

I have always loved fashion, trends, style, make-up and hair, but yes, some sort of a transformation truly happens when I play a 'bahu'. That's when I have to wear brown lenses to cover my green eyes, colour my hair dark, wear saris, and surprise myself that I can pull this off, too.

I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.