David Tennant Quotes

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

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

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 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.

You got to constantly be in character.

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

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.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

You have to find out how to become the character.

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

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, because it was like, 'I can't tell if it's supposed to be funny because he talks funny.' And now I feel like there are certain characters that I could play that could involve doing a thicker accent, as long as it's specific to that character.

There's a little bit of me in everybody that I play.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.