Eva Gabor Quotes

For me, everything is a performance.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

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

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.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.

I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.

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.

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 like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.