Billie Eilish Quotes

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

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

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

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

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

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.

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.

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

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

My roles have given me a lot of satisfaction. I became many individuals who were so different from me and whose experiences were so different from mine. I could experience all their emotions, their pains, their worries, their happiness.

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.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.

It's - you know, acting's all about relatability and finding empathy for a character, which is essentially, kind of, you're finding empathy with a part of yourself, which is a part of a character that was written by someone else, which was essentially kind of a part of them as well because it was a voice in their head they wrote down.