David Suchet Quotes

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

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.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.