Drew Barrymore Quotes

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

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

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 choose roles that are not me.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

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

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.