Nicole Byer Quotes

It's fun to be someone else.

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

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

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

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

It's always fun to play dress up.

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

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

I've just been very excited that over the years I've constantly had those types of different experiences. I like staying a little bit like acting school, not experimental, necessarily, but just fun. I have the best job in the world: I pretend for a living. You can't get too precious about that.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.