Gina Holden Quotes

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.

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

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

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

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

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

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

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.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.