Peyton List Quotes

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

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

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

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 feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.