Kelsey Chow Quotes

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

Acting is always therapeutic.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

It's a rare opportunity to play a character that is not only a lot of fun to portray, but it's also rare to play someone that teaches you something.

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.