Gina Bellman Quotes

I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.

It's always fun to play dress up.

I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

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

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

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.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

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.