Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

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 just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

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

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

I love dressing up and putting on the makeup and the hair and the clothes and just being a different person for a day. Maybe it's just the idea that you can kind of hide behind it all in a way.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

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

I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.

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

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.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

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

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

Halloween is all about being bold, daring, and creative! You get to be someone else for the night thanks to makeup and a costume. I pretty much do that on the daily, so I am not that big on Halloween, but I do appreciate a good costume and some incredible makeup.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.

I am one of those actors who does feel a change when a wig and fake nose are put on. Even the weird little things, like glasses - it's almost like having a mask on.