Lily James Quotes

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

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

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living, and I can't help but continue to do it.

I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.