Janina Gavankar Quotes

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.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

I have a great way of disappearing, and I'm able to do things people would never imagine. I'm often not recognized because I'm easy to hide if I change my hairstyle or put on a hat. I disappear very easily. That's not hard for me to do.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

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

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

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

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

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

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

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'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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

It's fun to be someone else.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.