Alissa White-Gluz Quotes

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.