Kate Nash Quotes

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

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.

It's so fun to just slip on different hats and play different characters, even if it's just for a minute.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

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

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

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early 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've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

It's fun to be someone else.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

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

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

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

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

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 like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

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.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.