George MacDonald Fraser Quotes

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

It's fun to be someone else.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

I'm not really an impersonator.

In Asia, I didn't feel like I was Chloe. I felt like I was acting like someone in Asia. I was acting like Chloe Wang, a pop star, that was like a character for me, if anything.

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

We are Martians who have come to earth to change everything—and we are afraid we will not be so well received. So we try to keep it a secret, try to appear as Americans…But that we could not do because of our accent. So we settled in a country nobody ever has heard about and now we are claiming to be Hungarians.

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.