Esme Creed-Miles Quotes

It's an acting job - acting natural.

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.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

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

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

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

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

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

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

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

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

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.