Steve Allen Quotes

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

When you're little, you're open to things. It's not like you get into this rehearsed zone when you're a child. At first you play different sides of yourself. And I think it will be really exciting one day to have a character to go into that's not anything like me whatsoever.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

I am always experimenting with roles.

I have a good time when I'm acting, and bottom line, I just want to enjoy myself and be a happy person, and acting makes me happy. I enjoy it, and it's a good way to escape yourself. You just become somebody else for a little bit, and it's a lot of fun.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

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

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

Modeling isn't boring.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.