Richard Kiel Quotes

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

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

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.