Daveed Diggs Quotes

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

I put myself into character for my songs.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

It is so cool having complete control over something because, with acting, it's words written by other people that you perform; you do something that's completely not yourself.

I grew up in musicals actually, and the last show I did in Dublin, 'Alice in Funderland', was a musical, and one that was written around my voice, which was nice.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

For me, acting is sacred.

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

This is the most rewarding experience ever, taking on the role of Thunder as an actress. I'm just grateful and honored to give my voice to Thunder because she's so bold.

When I become a character in a movie or drama... I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life.

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.