Tierra Whack Quotes

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.