George Pierce Baker Quotes

It's fun to be someone else.

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

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

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

I'm not really an impersonator.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

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

I really like 'Wannabe' from Itzy, because being a 'wannabe' means acting different than who you really are.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend.

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

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

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.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

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

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.