Jessica Biel Quotes

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

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

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

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

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

You always carry a character when you come on screen.

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.