Randy Quaid Quotes

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

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

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

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

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

Roles make the actor.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

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

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 best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

An actor has to embody a role.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

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

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

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.