Jon Pertwee Quotes

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 think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

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

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

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

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

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

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

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

You got to constantly be in character.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

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

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.