Allison Williams Quotes

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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 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.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

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.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.