Brie Larson Quotes

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

Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

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

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.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

It's fun to be someone else.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

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

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

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

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

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.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

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

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

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

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.

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.