Clark Duke Quotes

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.

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.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

It's hard for people to differentiate between a character they see on television and a person who plays the character.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

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

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

I'm an actor, I'm not a politician.

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.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

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.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

I play grizzlys, but I'm not a grizzly. I'm a song-and-dance man.

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

Who cares about people's personal lives? I mean, honestly. How are you then able to disappear into a role?

Acting is what I do with who I am.

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

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.