Rhys Ifans Quotes

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

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.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

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.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.