Emun Elliott Quotes

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

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

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.