Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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

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

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

You don't become the character.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.