Jean Smart Quotes

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

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

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

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

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

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.