William Zabka Quotes

Acting is what I do with who I am.

You have to be someone.

I choose roles that are not me.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

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

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Roles make the actor.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

You have to find out how to become the character.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.