Grace Jones Quotes

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

You don't become the character.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

You got to constantly be in character.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.