Emily Beecham Quotes

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

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

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

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

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.

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

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

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

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

I'm mad creative for acting.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.