Chloe Grace Moretz Quotes

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.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

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

It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I loved all fantasy, and I always thought that the ideal job as a performer and an entertainer would be to take on a mythical character, you know? Make someone up. Give them a voice, a mannerism, whatever. I always thought that that was the coolest way to do.

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.

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.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

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

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.