Keke Palmer Quotes

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

As an actor, it's your job to switch on and off from the character.

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

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

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

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

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.

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

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

When I'm acting, I do what I'm supposed to do.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

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.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.